A Ride To India Across Persia And Baluchistan By Harry De Windt









































 -  Skimming swiftly through the bright
blue waters, we neared the white city, not sorry to have successfully
accomplished the voyage - Page 146
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Skimming Swiftly Through The Bright Blue Waters, We Neared The White City, Not Sorry To Have Successfully Accomplished The Voyage So Far, Yet Aware That The Hardest Part Of The Journey To India Was Yet To Come.

At a distance, and seen from the harbour, Bushire is not unlike Cadiz. Its Moorish buildings, the whiteness of its houses and blueness of the sea, give it, on a fine day, a picturesque and taking appearance, speedily dissipated, how ever, on closer acquaintance; for Bushire is indescribably filthy.

The streets are mere alleys seven or eight feet broad, knee-deep in dust or mud, and as irregular and puzzling to a stranger as the maze at Hampton Court.

The Persian port is cool and pleasant enough in winter-time, but in summer the stench from open drains and cesspools becomes unbearable, and Europeans (of whom there are thirty or forty) remove _en masse_ to Sabsabad, a country place eight or ten miles off. The natives, in the mean time, live as best they can, and epidemics of cholera and diphtheria are of yearly occurrence. The water of Bushire producing guinea-worms (an animal that, unless rolled out of the skin with great care, breaks, rots, and forms a festering sore), supplies of it are brought in barrels from Bussorah or Mahommerah; but this is not within reach of the poorer class. Nearly every third person met in the street suffers from ophthalmia in some shape or other - the effect of the dust and glare, for there is no shade in or about the city.

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