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قراءة كتاب Eastern Nights - and Flights A Record of Oriental Adventure.
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Eastern Nights - and Flights A Record of Oriental Adventure.
EASTERN NIGHTS—AND FLIGHTS
A Record of Oriental Adventure
BY
CAPTAIN ALAN BOTT
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1919
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
TO
D. O. V.
Transcriber's Note: Inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation have been retained as printed.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Prologue. | Through the Looking Glass | 3 |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | Pain, Purgatory, and a Plan | 13 |
| II. | The Flight That Failed | 27 |
| III. | Nazareth; and the Christian Charity of a Jew | 39 |
| IV. | Damascus; and the Second Failure | 64 |
| V. | The Berlin-Bagdad Railway; and the Aeroplanes That Never Flew | 90 |
| VI. | Cuthbert, Alfonso, and a Mud Village | 110 |
| VII. | In the Shadow of the Black Rock | 124 |
| VIII. | Constantinople; and How to Become Mad | 140 |
| IX. | Introducing Theodore the Greek, John Willie the Bosnian, and David Lloyd George's Second Cousin | 159 |
| X. | The Third and Fourth Failures | 175 |
| XI. | A Greek Waitress, a German Beerhouse, a Turkish Policeman, and a Russian Ship | 189 |
| XII. | The Face at the Window | 203 |
| XIII. | A Shipload of Rogues | 213 |
| XIV. | The City of Disguises | 230 |
| XV. | Stowaways, Inc. | 250 |
| XVI. | A Russian Interlude | 266 |
| XVII. | Sofia, Salonika, and So to Bed | 281 |
| Epilogue. | A Damascus Postscript; and Some Words on the Knights of Araby, A Crusader in Shorts, a Very Noble Ladye, and Some Happy Endings | 286 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Alias Fritz Richter | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Captain T. W. White | 150 |
| Captain Yeats-Brown | 236 |
Eastern Nights—and Flights
PROLOGUE
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Most of us who were at close grips with the Great War will remember the habit of speculation about life on the far side of the front. Somewhere beyond the frontier of trenches, we realized, were our opposite numbers—infantrymen, gunners, aviators, staff officers, mess orderlies, generals, captains, lance-corporals—each according to character, rank, and duties, and to the position he occupied by reason of ability, courage, initiative, old age, self-advertisement, or wire-pulling. We saw them through a glass, darkly—a glass that, being partly concave, partly convex, and almost impenetrable throughout, showed us our opposite numbers as distorted reflections of ourselves.
We knew well that a journey through, round, or over this glass would take us into an unnatural world