the mountains looked utterly bare and barren, and there did not appear to be a particle of vegetation anywhere. The next day was rough, but the wind still behind us. It always is more or less rough in the Red Sea, and there is almost sure to be a strong wind blowing either up or down it. I know this time the sea was quite high enough to make some of us feel very uncomfortable. We had lost sight of the coast since leaving the Gulf of Suez, but as the sun went down in a mist on the evening of the 6th of March, there stood up against it the sharp peak of some great mountain, and then we knew that the end of our journey was approaching, and that the next morning would see us saying good-bye to the comforts of board ship-life, for we should be off Suakin.
