TCD MS 10515 folio 12v
[March 4th 1916] that drives the vessel. On leaving the engine room, one expressed the opinion that there was only one thing that the Sahibs had not yet succeeded in achieving, and that was the manufacture of a human being. Sunday: March 5th 1916: At Sea
This morning we saw the Mekran coast of Persia visible on our Starboard, about thirty miles distant. In places it appeared as a grey lowlying , barren shore, rising at places into inhospitable cliffs. A steamer, probably from the Gulf bound for India, passed between us and the shore; the first vessel we have sighted since our departure. Towards morn the distant shore appeared more hilly and rose into dim round peaks obscured in the white