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14 March 1906 — En route to Venice | |
Wednesday. 14th [March 1906]. Another calm day. We got to Aden soon after 3 o’cl. The Bombay P&O was not in so we lay there all the afternoon. A few passengers went on shore but it was too hot & the shore too arid, sandy & uninviting for the most of us to be tempted to move & I sat by the old French lady for some time. She was lying on deck in her chair. Another French lady joined us & in the course of conversation said she had come from New Caledonia. I said I had heard so much of the colony that I seemed to know it as my brother in law had been Consul General there—on telling her Edgar’s name she exclaimed “Oh but we are living in his house! & I think my husband must have known him.” Later in the day she brought her husband up to me & he said he had known Edgar slightly & that he had left a “tres bon souvenir” behind him; & so we fraternised & smiled & chatted together. At last the expected P&O arrived abt 5 and the embarcation of the mails began. Then Genl Swayne, the adversary of the Med Mullah came on board & a salute was fired for him from the fort. He is going with us towards England. I think he is Mrs Harston’s brother. After dinner the Bombay passengers, some 70 came on board & abt 11 we started off again up the Red Sea & are now going along a good pace. | |
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