He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Solomon.
Passepartout slenterde, volgens gewoonte, door de stad, tusschen Somanlis, Banianen, Perzen, Joden, Arabieren en Europeanen, die de 25,000 inwoners van Aden uitmaken.