I left the people I liked on the Sultey last Thursday in the Suez Canal and came on here in a special train.

It is very cold here, and it is not a place where the cold is in keeping with the surroundings.

You see people in white helmets and astrakan overcoats.

It is an immense city and intensely interesting, especially the bazaars, but you feel so ignorant about it all that it rather angers you.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages.