"Travellers have sought in vain to convey to their readers their impressions of the extreme aridity and desolation of Aden, in vain, because there are no words which can give an idea of a settlement of human beings fixed among a series of extinct volcanoes. I thought as I looked at it that I felt very much like a thirsty fly who had suddenly dropped down on the cooking establishment of some great railway company would feel, with difference that I could not fly away. "

"We reached the Hotel at last. Ah! Parsee Cowasjee, where did you get that soda-water? Anyone who remembers those early days when his nurse would put the soapsuds into his mouth, will know what we who drank of that Aden soda-water experienced."

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