Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1925, Page 17

SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1925 z Che Casvet Sunday Tribune DESERT MIRAGES STALK GLOBE [EAS ON FLIGHT 10 BAGDAD (Continued from Page desolate than any in Ari off to the north in the direction of Kirman and Seistan, where nomad tribesmen weave Persia's most ex quisito rugs, a desert mirage fol lowed Us most of the way to Ban- r Abbas. It s the first time teat That beet asenia 1 In- stead of resembling water it looked more like a lake of quicksilver to me. When I half closed my eyes I could imagine I was seein vst anything from palm trees rel caravans to ships at sea the minarets of an oriental city. 750 Miles in One Day. “It was 6:30 on the afternoon of July 7 when we arrived over the landing field at ‘Bandar Abbas. We had started at 6:30 in the morning, and with the exception of two hours we had spent refueling at Chabar we had flown continuourly. We had traveled a distance of approximately 150 miles, all the way from Karachi, India, across Baluchistan, and near ly half way across Persia. ‘This is the land of the camel caravan, and to cover that same distance by caravan would take over a month! We had made it in just ten hours. “Although not a large city, Ban- dar Abbas, with the exception of Bushire, is the chief port of Persia. It is situated on the Strait of Ormuz, Which connects the Gulf of Oman with the Persian gulf. The prin- cipal inland city which it serves {s Kitman. Caravans laden with car- pets, grain, tobacco; and cotton come in to Bandar Abbas every day. “The only white people there are the few attached to the English and French consulates. The former put us up for the hight in his home eight miles from the town, which really looked more like a fortress than a house, and was surrounded by high walls. “We were warned to stay away from the natives of Bandar Abbas as much as possible because there was a cholera plague raging at the time. In fact, many of the native inhabitants had fled to the moun: tains to escape it. Too Hot to Sleep. “Thero was only one motor car in all that part of Persia. It ‘was a. wheezy fiivver of pre-war vintage that craeted a Jot of amusement as well as no end of excitement be- cause no one was ever quite ure when it would start, or when it would stop.. ‘In order to start it you had to get a crowd of coolies to push ft. Then to bring it to a full stop yor had to jump out, run ahead with a plank and block the wheels, Not even the alchemists, astrologers and other wise men of the east could Away and ex or SEE L. D. BRANSON F or Everything Electrical Delco, Klaxon, Remy 615 E. Second St. Phone 383 Means Radiator 316 West Yellowstone THIS IS find out what was wrong with that cantankerous flivver. The British consul claimed that a Persian sore had bewitched it night the few white people lar Abbas dined with us at the British consulate.’ The hit of the evening was the congul’'s little ice machine. Sad to relate, it was only big enough to make ice for just one round of drinks, and then for thé rest of the evening every thing had to be cooled by evapc tion, just as it was done thousands of years ago : “Three of us slept in ono house and three in another. Ogden, who happened to be bunking near me, woke up In the middle of the night with an uncontrollable thirst. He tried to go back to sleep, but his throat was too parched. So he got up and went prowling about in the dark. Finally, in tho courtyard, he bumped into the wall of a well, and in feeling around discovered a thatch-roofed little structure where the earthen jars used in evaporat- ing the water were kept. The rest of that night he spent in this hut, sleeping and drinking intermittently Off on Early Start “At 3:30 we Were up and on our way to the planes. The supply of gasoline had been sent here in two gallon tins, and when you remem- ber that we had to pour between 300 and 400 gallons in each plane, you can imagine what a long job it was. But we lined up the coolies like a fire bucket brigade, and got through in time to get away at 5:30. Then we made a fast flight along the Per- sian guif to Bushire, arriving there at 9:30 a. m. ‘Most of the other airmen who have passed down this coast, in- cluding Poulet, the Frenchman who flew from Paris to the Dutch East Indic, and Ross Smith, Mathews, and Parer, all of England to Aus: tralia flight fame, had encountered severe sand storms betveen Bandar Abbas and Bushire. Parer and Me- Intosh encountered the strange phe- nomenon of a sand storm blowing in from the sea. They ascended to over 8,500 feet without being able to ¢scane it, and finally had to fly away out over the Persian gulf to get around the sand. Fortunately we were not troubled by these storfis and saw nothing but wild, forbid. ding looking country on our right mirages along the horizon to the north, and to our left the waters of the Persian gulf, where the galleys of Cyrus, Sargon, Hammurabi, and Nebuchadnezzar used to ply back and forth. Over Terriblo Country. “If anything the country we pass: ed over between Bundar Abbas and Bushire was the most vicious and inhospitable we had seen. As Sir Ross mith said after he had passed this way, it ‘appears as if a mighty harrow had torn down the mountain sides into abysmal furrows. Fan- COLD WEATHER tastically shaped ridges and razor. backs rise precipitously from deep valleys of vegetation and desolate of life.’ troubles galore. Bring them to us and save. WYOMING RADIATOR & WELDING SHOP Phone1§826-W GOOD! 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Prices from $1.50 to $3.00 We call for and deliver your car NIGHT SERVICE BY APPOINTMENT without damage to wiring porta We also knew that we t on the Persian gu were is covered with buildin. open squares. from the deser glistened on t al and séa shell. “Midway. between Bagdad we left the de: r south of Bagdad ated to us that wo above the most famous world, a city me down through | th ars and fs still ring sun 8 of white cor Bushiro and and came WwW plerced by “Looking down on Bushire, {t re-] was once the most densely populated | this metropolis of the early days of minded us a little of far-off New| part of the earth. That: wa human ¢ about the time York City and Manhattan Island.| back in the days of the anc when the « of histor This seaport, which is the most {m-| merian, Chaldean, and Ass; +| raised to re city fifteen ent right at the end of a lor ing near Ur of the Chaldees, the gardens rious palaces, tongue of land. Just as i Abraham migrated] with its great pyramid of New York, every 1 Arabia to what is row | lofty pedestal for a fort image of the god Baal, with its wall a hundred feet high, the wall that a hundred gates of brass and that was wide enough for four ltrse chariots to dash along help but wonder just how long it will be un London © top. And T couldn't New York, Chicago, was with hang out over the dolta of the Shatt-el American schoo! | til Arab, the wide river formed by the] ch where Nebuchadnezzar junction of the Tigris and Muphra » Children of Israel in tes. While flying ne: looked down and saw houses, bee hive t seriés, wharfs, and palm and where the prohpet 1 had his adventure in the s’ den shor before he trans. ng on the wall at Dan Hon roves of Basra, the port of entry to Mesopo-| I This clty that tamia, During the world war, Bas-|we were lool down upon was ra whs the main British base in| none othe ancient Babylon. part of the east. Hundreds of| “As we along, before thousands of British mind's eye troops were either stationed } passed this way. But tts clir reputed to be deadly, and wero glad we had enough fuel on board to enable us to push right on up tow ard Bagdad. Over Garden of Eden. “This was another part of our Journey that was exceptionally rich in historical associations. We were looking right down upon the very region between the Tigris and Bu phrates, which tradition tells us was the Garden of Eden. If that be true then we flew over the spot where God made Eve from Adam's seventh rib, and where the well known apple tree stood that was poor old Adam's undoing, the apple tree that made it} necessary for the rest of us to sweat and struggle for a living “As we flew on toward Bagdad wo occasionally saw ridges and bumps in the sand, and we imagined they were indications of buried cities of | the past. 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