Exploring the Curious Old City: Mark Twain's Adventure in Damascus
- Mark Twain recounts his arrival in the dark and crooked streets of Damascus, surrounded by high mud-walls and lanterns flitting around.
- Entering a hotel through a hole in the wall, Twain describes a flagged court with flowers, citron trees, and a tank of clear, cool water.
- The sound and sight of the water in the scorching desert land is refreshing and beautiful, representing a mimic rain.
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Mark Twain (died 1910) enters the city of Damascus - from The Innocents Abroad It was fairly dark a few minutes after we got within the wall, and we rode long distances through wonderfully crooked streets, eight to ten feet wide and shut in on either side by the high mud-walls of the gardens. At last we got to where lanterns could be seen flitting about here and there and knew we were in the midst of the curious old city. In a little narrow street, crowded with our pack mules and with a swarm of uncouth Arabs, we alighted and through a kind of a hole in the wall entered the hotel. We stood in a great flagged court with flowers and citron trees about us and a huge tank in the centre that was receiving the waters of many pipes. We crossed the court and entered the rooms prepared to receive four of us. In a large marble-paved recess between the two rooms was another tank of clear, cool water, which was kept running over all the time by the streams that were pouring into it from half a dozen pipes. Nothing, in this scorching, desolate land could look so refreshing as this pure water flashing in the lamp light, nothing could look so beautiful, nothing could sound so delicious as this mimic rain to ears long unaccustomed to sounds of such a nature. 最後のNothing,～such a natureまでが、so～asの繰り返しになっているのですが、上手く意味が取れません。ここはこの英文の前に出てくるanother tank について述べているのでしょうか？ 長文で申し訳ないですが、よろしくお願いします。
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いや、水のことです。 in this scorching, desolate land この焼け付くように暑く、荒廃した土地では、 this pure water flashing in the lamp light ランプの光に輝くこの純粋な水ほど Nothing land could look so refreshing すがすがしく見えるものはない。 nothing could look so beautiful, これほど美しいものはない nothing could sound so delicious これほどおいしそうに聞こえるものはない as this mimic rain この雨もどきほど to ears long unaccustomed to sounds of such a nature. このような自然の音を長いこと聞いていなかった耳には
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The Ottoman High Command failed to make up the losses of 1915. The war in Gallipoli was using all the resources and manpower. The IX, X and XI Corps could not be reinforced and in addition to that the 1st and 5th Expeditionary Forces were deployed to Mesopotamia Campaign which did not show signs of ending soon. Ottoman High Command recognizing the dire situation on other fronts, decided that this region was of secondary importance. As of January 1916, Ottoman forces were 126,000 men, only 50,539 being combat soldiers. There were 74,057 rifles, 77 machine guns and 180 pieces of artillery. Many of the guns which were supposed to defend the city had been moved to Gallipoli to counter the British forces. The guns that were left in the region were older weapons and not in very good condition. The soldiers were not in good condition. They suffered from inadequate food as was typical of many Turkish soldiers at that time. Ottoman forces in the Caucasus Campaign were big on paper, but not on the ground. Another source claim that 78,000 troops were in this region, perhaps associating the number of rifles to actual soldiers.
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