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| The following night they passed through the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, which means in Arabic The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. Call it north-west or south-west, it is all one - a different phase of the same character, a changed expression on the same face. Much rain fell in the night; and the next morning there blew a bitter wintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. |
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