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 away with a feeling of thankfulness for one poster that I saw pasted up on a hoarding in it. The town was that sink of iniquity, as I consider it, the town which is built just at the entrance to the Suez Canal. I believe that the human rubbish and vice of the world has been carted into a heap in this town. I think I have never seen a town with so many glaring proofs of the hideousness of the moral life of the place, and I must admit that, during my stay of a day or two there, I never felt more uncomfortable in any town. But the morning before I sailed down the Canal, I came across one poster which must, I think, have been printed by an Italian printer. It was beautifully printed, and on it was a call to the Italians of that town to celebrate, I think, the 20th of September, the entry of the Italian troops into Rome in 1870. It called, in the names of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour and Victor Emanuel, on all the Italians in that town to meet together on the 20th of September, in order to commemorate that striking day in the history of their fatherland. The very sight of that