A glimpse of India : being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America.

  • Clara Swain
Date:
1909
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Credit: A glimpse of India : being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which was prevalent in India when we left and may be in Jaffa and Jerusalem. Twenty-ninth. We had a very hot night and it is uncomfortably warm this morning. Mrs. Nind says she does not wonder that the Israelites wanted to turn back when they reached the Red Sea if it was as hot then as it is now. We have passed the twelve large rocks which are called “The Twelve Apostles.” Thirtieth. We reached Suez to-day and stopped to take on a pilot to take us through the canal. It takes twenty hours to go through as steamers go only from five to seven miles an hour. The company pays at the rate of ten shillings apiece for each passenger and a certain rate a ton for the cargo, and this steamer’s payment will amount to six or seven thousand dollars. The sail through the canal has been very pleasant so far. I noticed some improvements along the line of the railway. The fresh water canal recently built by the Khedive from the Nile to Suez will prove a great blessing. The green fields that we see in the distance and the little houses which, though rude, look comfortable, add to the scene and the mustard fields which are now in blossom enrich the landscape. We have just been on deck to get a view of the First [ 336]