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Edited travelogue
with narrative titles
Circumnavigating the Earth
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Producer: Arthur and Kate Tode ("Arthur and Kate Tode (Kahop)")
Audio/Visual: silent, color
Intertitles as written by the Todes:
"Edfu and its marvelous Temple dedicated to Horus, the Sun God
The tallest pylon in all Egypt.
The great Temple of Edfu, the most perfect temple now standing in Egypt was built in honor of the falcon-god, Horus the Conqueror
Views from the top of the Edfu Temple pylon
Approaching Komombo
Scenes in and about the great Temple of Sobek and Haroeris.
Arriving at Aswan
The undetached 1200 ton obelisk in the quarries of Aswan
A visit to the famed and submerged Temple of Isis at Philae
Partially submerged ruins of the Holy Island of Philae-- famous for centuries as a centre of the worship of Isis
A sacrifice on the altar of progress
The Temple of Isis at Philae
Sculptured pylon and flooded forecourt of the Temple of Isis
The great Aswan Dam stands at the head of the first Cataract of the Nile.
Controlling the life of Egypt at Aswan
The Aswan Dam is intended to hold up water to the level of 348 feet.
Since its construction in 1898 the height of the dam is now being raised for the third time.
Enjoying diversified athletic events at Aswan.
Oh! Look it what's coming!
A camel trek to the desert village of the Besherin Race; commonly termed the "Gypsies of Nubia".
Ruins of the Rameseum. l.e. the Temple of Rameses the Great at Thebes built in honor of Amen-Ra.
Headless statues in the mortuary chapel of Rameses II at Thebes.
The Judgment Hall of Osiris--- the Temple of Deir-el-Mednia.
The palace and Temple of Rameses III at Medinet-Haboo
One usually associates a deck-chair with comfort -- especially on the good ship "Damietta".
The locks of the barrage at Nag Hamadi where the Western Oasis Railroad crosses the Nile.
"Shove hard boys- 'an keep her off!"
Many types of natives lined the locks to watch the "Damietta" pass thru.
The lock machinery is operated by hand-power.
Shawls, beads, scarabs, fly-whisks, stuffed, snakes and crocodiles, and many other charms and horrors are--
--bargained for and bought to decorate or disfigure our Western homes from the crowds of natives about the water-front
The chief seat of the worship of Osiris in Upper Egypt is at Abydos.
The base reliefs and vivid colors in the magnificent Temple of Abydos are unequalled throughout Egypt.
Rameses the Great, was the most prolific self-advertiser the world has ever known; in fact he was "Old man bull-thrower" himself.
Even in his tender year he practised "throwing the bull" which event is forever commemorated on the walls of his temple at Abydos.
The Nile voyage end-- "Good-bye to the Land of the Pharaohs" -- bound for Palestine.
A city set on a hill
"Jerusalem the Golden"
The great impregnable wall of the City of Daivd.
Jaffa Gate-- thru which General Allenby's victorious army entered the city in 1918.
On Mount Moriah stands magnificent Dome of the Rock, or Kubbet es-Sakhra.
The dome shelters the original huge rock where Abraham was on the point of slaying Isaac; from here Mohammed was--
-- translated into heaven on the back of El Burak his miraculous steed; here stood, in by-gone ages, the Great Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem
With the exception only of the Kabba at Mecca, the most holy shrine in all Islam.
It is under these arches that the Mohammedans believe the souls will be weighed on Judgment Day.
Aska Mosque
All that remains of the glories of the greatest temple ever constructed
One wall of King Solomon's Temple still stands; for ages it has been called the Jews "Wailing Wall"
"For the palace that lies desolate
For the Temple that is destroyed
For the walls that are overthrown
For our majesty that is departed
We sit in solitude and mourn"
The Plain of Boaz at Bethlehem where the shepherds kept their watch
Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem erected over the traditional birthplace of Christ.
The Golden Gate of Jerusalem thru which Christ rode into the city of Palm Sunday.
Along the Via Dolorosa (Street of Pain) where Jesus carried the Cross to Golgotha.
The Ecce Homo Arch marks the spot where Pilate uttered the words: "Behold the man."
The Fourteenth and Last Station along the Via Dolorosa is the Holy Sepulchre itself
The Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives
Ancient Jerash in Trans-Jordania.
The large Triumphal Gate bears a striking similarity to Trajan's Arch at Rome
The stones are standing but the greatness they commemorate has passed away
The Propylaea of the Great Temple still afford an idea of the grandeur of the original of the structure
The city was destroyed by an earthquake in the twelfth century and abandoned.
More imposing even than Pompei, and far better preserved, is this second city of the Roman Decapolis of 2000 years ago.
A trek to Arabia Petrea, the lost city on the Sinai Peninsula
Petra lies deep in the wilderness of the Arabian desert, not far from Mount Hor where the Israelites are believed to have buried their great leader, Aaron
Petra obtained its first importance some three thousand years ago thru its almost inaccessible--
--position which made it easy of defense against the attacks of the desert tribes and rendered it a suitable depot on the caravan route from Egypt to Mesopotamia and Persia.
From the 10th to the 19th centuries Petra existed only in song and story; it was indeed a "lost city" for nearly one thousand years until rediscovered in the last century.
The start was made from Amman, capitol of Trans-Jordania, and the ancient city of Philadelphia of the Greeks.
There are exactly 52 trains per year, i.e. one train per week from Amman, via the Kingdom of Hejaz Railway, southward to the frontier post of Maan
The weekly train along the narrown-gauge Pilgrim's Route to Medina and Mecca stops at every dreary desert station
And it transports every type of human, animal and inanimate object.
At the frontier post of Maan the boys keep in practice.
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From Maan to Wadi Musa via a decrepid Ford; here the Bedouins with their horses, plus a military escort awaited us.
The formidale mountains of Arabia Petraea still loomed miles away.
Approaching the ancient Nabatean City, the only entrance through the mountains is a two mile long gorge, so narrow that but a single rider can pass.
Two thousand years ago this narrow gorge resounded to the tramp of Trajan's conquering legions.
The cliffs on each side practically meet--and the gorge is always dark.
And on each side, aloft and wild, Huge cliffs and toppling crags were piled
Here is the entrance into Petra, "the rose-red city half as old as time"
And at the entrance to the Ski stands the rock-hewn El Khazne, or Pharaoh's Treasury- a Temple to Isis.
Even more beautiful than the Temple of Theseus at Athens or the Forum at Rome. A rose-red temple carved like a cameo from the face of the mountain
Camp Kahop in the shadow of Kasr Fir'aun.
Except for wandering Bedouins, less than 80 persons received governmental persmission in 1929 to journey to Petra and view these splendors of the past.
All the tombs of this "City of Ghosts" have elaborate facades but within they are simple and austere
The colorings of the rocks of Petra are unequalled-- covering the entire lost city it is undoubtedly a freak of nature.
Observe the delicate tracery of the rocks which is in every color of the rainbow, from the darkest shades to the lightest of hues.
This weathered corniced tomb is remarkable for its beautiful coloring
The Amphitheatre at Petra. Ruin and silence reign where plaudits once cheered the city.
Mute but eloquent testimony to the Master Builders of bygone Petra.
The tombs, more than 750 in number, are the most important of the ruins; they are out of the rock-walls on every side.
From these mountain tops Amaziah, king of Israel hurled ten thousand of the inhabitants to the canons below
The "Unfinished Temple Tomb" is of special interest, as showing how the Petraeans sculptured their rock-hewn tombs from the top downwards without the aid of scaffolding.
On the top-most mountain stand the crowning achievement of the lost races-- the Temple of El-Dier
The tall men standing in the doorway of this grand edifice look like minute puppets.
El-Dier is one and a half times the height of Westminster Abbey-- and carved out of the living rock!
El-Dier, or the Convent, is surrounded by a gigantic urn, and decorated with the head of Medusa
And then --- it snowed in Petra for the first time in over thirty years
The one desert road leading out of Petra's gorge and back to Maan became impassable.
But the military head of the district came to our assistance.
With horses, guides and armed escorts we traversed 35 miles over snow covered mountains, back to Maan.
The solider on the right offered his horse - but not his rifle - in exchange for Kate!
(The bargain was not concluded)
The weekly train back to civilization via Amman to Damascus 400 miles away had left the day previous; so a gasoline trolley was pressed into service. Some whoopee ride!
Nearing Damascus, "Star of the East"
The public life of the city is concentrated in the miles of bazaars; famous for their extent and variety.
Question:
Which carries the bigger load, the man or the camel?
An old Syrian palace
The great Omanjade Mosque of Damascus
The Overland Desert Mail and caravan route to Baghdad across the great Syrian Desert starts at the Victoria Hotel.
The cars travel in convoy with armed escorts.
Only occasional Bedouins and the oasis of Rubta Wells break the monotony of the 700 mile desert journey
Falujah on the Iraq Frontier, where the Euphrates River is crossed on a pontoon bridge.
The caravan cars are prepared for any emergency, from hostile attacks to breakdowns and impassable roads
Baghdad on the Tigris "City of a Thousand and One Nights"
The Tomb of Zobaidah and the Iman Azim Mosque.
In the home of Harun-al-Rashid where story-tellers in turbans drone the racy, unexpurgated tales of Arabian nights.
The Golden Mosque at Kodhemain during a sand-storm
Baghdad, the home of the Arabian Nights is left behind
On the banks of the River Tigris is the imposing ruin of the Arch of Chosran at Ctesiphon.
A score of centuries ago horse-drawn chariots of the Persian Kings rolled about this now ruined wonder of the architectural world.
The famous arch with its marvelous span of roof is all that remains of the great palace built A.D. 300 by the Persians
A marvel of architecture; built of small tiles this vaulted hall, 122 feet high, 83 feet wide and 164 feet long had stood more than 1700 years!
The ruins of ancient Babylon. Ishtar Gate and the remains of Nebuchadnezzar's palace, famous for its hanging gardens.
Here stood the great hall in which Belshazzar saw the vision of the Writing on the Wall which is recored in the Book of Daniel.
Stone "Lion of Babylon" amid its desolate surroundings For centuries it has dominated the ruins of Babylon.
Leaving Birs Nimrud (Borsippa), supposedly the site of the Tower of Babel we arrived at
Kish According to tradition, the first city to be founded after the flood
These excavations have proven that Kish flourished over 7000 years ago -- and unmistakeable signs of the great flood have been discovered.
Our car is attached at Hilla for Ur of the Chaldees.
And we take leave of our newly made friends.
The Ziggurant and ruins or Ur of the Chaldees-- the City of Abraham
Ur of the Chaldees and its 5000-year-old skyscraper, the Temple of the Moon God.
The High Commissioner of Iraq visits the ruins the same day.
From Ur of the Chaldees, Abraham set forth to go into the land of Canaan. Now it is the graveyard of a vanished civilization.
Me too!
Basra On the Persian Gulf-- home of Sinbad the Sailor
And along came Ruth
From Basra to Karachi via Imperial Airways (February 28th 1930)
The Imperial Airways liner "City of Karachi" which was to be our conveyance for three days arrives at the Shaibah (Basra) airdrome, via Baghdad and five days outbound from London for India.
Our friend Mr. Richard Roy Maconachie, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Kabul, on his way to the capitol of Afghanistan comes ashore before we join him on our flight to Persia.
The plane is fueled inspected and the giant motors tuned up
With reminiscences of a happy champagne party, Kahop bid good-by to their friends the pilots Rudd, White and Wilcockson -- and are off!
Thundering down the Euphrates delta primordial area of ooze slime and silence
At Buraim, some distance down the Persian Gulf we fly directly over the extensive oil refineries of the Khanaqin Turkish Oil Company.
The firs part of the flight is over low-land which are a part of the delta of the Euphrates River but the country soon changes to one of mountainous character.
Arriving at Bushire in Persia -- where we quartered for the night in an old, curious but fairly comfortable, Persian home.
The second day we winged our way from Bushire to Lingeh, and thence to Jask, traveling at a height of some 700 feet to clear the rugged peaks.
Ormuz, reputed treasure isle of long ago, lifts its empty, oddly colored rock along the Persian littoral.
On such beaches ring-shaped Arab women in black toil over stinking piles of Bahrein pearl shells.
Sinbad tied to a roc's foot, flew over no stranger sights than we saw. Here is the very tip of Arabia, near the Strait of Hormuz, photographed from the height of a mile and a half.
At Jask, on our second night's halt, we met Mr. Van Lear Black of Baltimore, the Flying American Merchant en route from Holland to Tokyo.
Upon taking off the next morning we arranged an air rendezvous with the intention of photographing our planes in flight. Van Lear Black's machine is and object of curiosity to a large group of natives as he prepares to follow us.
An hour later Van Lear Black's plane overhauls us while we are high over the serrated peaks of the frowning Makran Coast Range.
Breakfast in Persia! (Jask)
Lunch in Baluchistan! (Gwadar)
Supper in India! (Karachi)
The "City of Karachi" alights on the wasteless desert at Gwadar in British Baluchistan for refueling.
The Alpha and Omega of Transportation! Old ships of the desert and a modern ship of the air.
Speeding along the Makran Coast Range while over Ras Ormara in Baluchistan
While Messers Maconachie, Cole and Kahop are comfortable in the cabin of the plane
Approaching the harbor of Karachi -- India's large western seaport second in importance only to Bombay.
From where we commenced our ten weeks' trip through Central and Northern India"
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