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VOL. mi. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JULY 7, 1927. ** NO. 23.
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Plan Highway
of 2,275 Miles
? t
Concrete Roadway From
Chicago to Los Angeles
Is Contemplated.
Chicago.?A concrete highway from
Chicago to Los Angeles will link the
toro fields of the Middle West with
the oil regions and fruit lands of the
Pacific. This Is the plan of the re
cently formed United States Highway
Oti association, which visualizes a
"Main Street of America," that will
serve both as a commercial and a
military highway. Travel time be
tween the two points will be reduced
by several days, it is expected.
This pavement will be about 2,275
miles long and the width in heavily
traveled sections will be as much as
40 feet. The mapped-out route is 200
miles shorter than any other highway
or railroad between Chicago and Los
ing any dangerous passes, welcome
news for prospective tourists from the
Great Plains. The roadway then drops
down to San Bernardino, Calif., and
I-os Angeles is but a short Journey
away.
Permanent Organization.
The United States Highway 66 as
sociation is a permanent organiza
tion formed by chambers of commerce
and automobile clubs, representatives
and state officials from the Middle
West to the Pacific coast. John T.
Woodruff of Springfield. Mo., president
of the association, has been engaged
In both railroad and highway develop
ment work as an attorney and an en
gineer. Mr. Woodruff assisted in revo
lutionising highway building in his
state.
"A great highway," declares Mr.
Woodruff, "cannot be worth Its pur
pose unless, like a trunk-line railway,
JBi * ? -t ? a*?
P uou ilide about OIV soft cuskiorvs beklnd ike purring motor
uour cbr, today, Hearken, back to tke time of your Grand/atker-^ Our *ta^j
] artist kaa portrayed for you a feuj of the modes of travel common 100 yeecs
I aAo In tke states noufservad by U.S.*66 ujkick Is skorter tkan any railroad or
I * olker klAkujau bctuueerv Great Lakes and Los Angeles.-- It ia malnlalrved
/ nouTas all-year-all-toeatker-road and tuill be paved,untkout
? detoura^jjoonjrom Chicago to Pacijic Coast..
( ( ^ A? T r
Angeles and when finished the trip
may be made comfortably In eight or
nine days.
United States Highway 66. its offi
cial name, follows established main
roadways as much as possible. In Illi
nois. for instance, the route follows
the 275-mile paved highway from Chi
cago to St. Louis. However, in the
Interest of shortened travel United
States Highway 06 breaks to the
sootliwest from the Billionarea to
Springfield and Joplin, even though a
250-mile" stretch of concrete now ex
tends westward from St. Louis to
Kansas City. About half of the high
way Is paved from St. Louis to Jop'.in.
Expect Co-operation.
From Joplin on there is very little
paving, but through the centralized or
ganization highway authorities are
certain that the co-operation between
county, state and federal government
road builders will bring about an
early completion of this concrete rib
bon.
The route extends to Tulsa, Okla
homa City and Texola from Joplin and
then touches an oil region of upper
Texas. The roadway then passes on
to mysterious Santa Fe, N. M? and
hrom there to Albuquerque, which
hardly anybody can spell, and On to
Gallup, made famous by eastern sce
?orio and magazine writers who have
hoen there.
Holbrook, Flagstaff and Needles are
high spots on the thoroughfare
through the tombstone and cactus
Nate of Arizona. The Rocky moun
tains are crossed without encounter
Million Miles Flown for
Each Fatality in U. S.
Newark, N. J.?One can now fly
0l)re than 1,000,000 miles to the risk
? single fntallty. This is the pres
et situation in this country as estab
lished by the air-mail service and
*iiieh is welcomed by those interest- I
* In commercial aviation enterprises,
tn the army and navy the distance
'""n to a fatality Is about one-half
""s rate due to the greater inherent
"sard called for by military require
ments.
hazards in commercial flying are
"'Mly diminishing In proportion to ,
distance traveled, as the area of
"Iterations expands. Is the prelimi
Jsry conclusion of Dr. Frederick L.
?"'man, consulting statistician, Pru
ntial Insurance company, who has
* seveyai years been investigating
7* situauon. Doctor Hoffman last
made 14 flights himself, covering
?ere than 2,000 miles of air distance.
* !> most enthusiastic in his antid
for the future of flying, believ
f that in a few years flying will be
common on this side of the Atlan
't Is In Europe at the present
l^octor Hoffman Is also of the opln
that recent legislation providing
'he federal supervision of flying
? strongly in the direction of
I ^n safety by providing for thor
l Iwla tlon of aI1 alrcraft anJ
| ca' examination of pilots.
I it connects our centers of population,
tups our rich agricultural and mining
regions and presages expansion for
millions of young citizens In unde
veloped territories. United States
Highway GG, in my opinion, does all of
that and more; it will, by every
token, become America's^Iaiu street*
in reality as well as namfe."
Moslem Piety Keeps
Irak Officials Busy
London, England.?Corpse smuggling
at tlie frontiers of Irak keeps Euro
pean health officials busy enforcing
quarantine rules, according to reports
received here by the editors of the
Lancet. Tite desire of all devout Mo
hammedans to make pilgrimages to
the cities visited by the prophet, as
well as the blessings that accrue to
the faithful when they make one of
the holy cities their final resting place,
makes plenty of work for the quaran
tine officers.
New laws have been put into effect
calling for the examination of all local
corpses as well as those in transit
from other countries. Now no corpse
can be buried in one of the holy places
without a pass. Examinations and
health permits are also Issued to the
thousands of pilgrims that throng into
Arabia from the East, thus enabling
health officers to check up on t he most
fruitful sources of the spread of epi
demics in the Orient.
Poem Parties Revived
by Japanese Emperor
Tokyo.?The imperial monthly poem
party, one of the features of Japan- J
ese court life, is to be resumed after j
having been suspended several months
because of tbe death of Emperor
Taisko.
A subject for eucli poem party Is
always provided by his majesty. For
the remainder of this year, Kmperor
Hlrohito announced the following sub
jects upon which the versifying guests
might try their hands: June, "The
Thread"; July, "The Duckweed"; Au
gust, "The Cool Wind"; September,
"Moonlight in the Garden"; October,
"A Chrysanthemum by a Mountain
Road"; November, "Ice in the Dale,"
and December, "An Icy Night."
The poem party is held on the Hfth
day of each month.
War Hero With Many
Medals Asks for Job
Los Angeles, Calif.?An appeal to
City Engineer Shaw to find in his de
partment a position for Louis Van
Iersel, said to have received more
decorations than any man who served
In the World war, was made by Dr.
A. D. Houghton of the state committee
of the hospital department? American
Legion. Iersel, whose health was un
dermined during the war, formerly
worked In the city survey department
of the engineer's office.
Iersel has received medals from the
king of England for life-saving at sea;
the French Croii de Guerre for rescu
ing 16 wounded comrades; a second
("roil de Guerre for capfu?lng 65 Ger
mans, live of tiiem officers, during the
battle of the Argonne; the Congres
sional Medal of Honor and the Med
allle Milltaire; the Italian War Cross;
the War Cross of Montenegro, and life
memberships in the American legion
and the Disabled Veterans of the
World War. He also received the
"Hero" medal of the Breakfast club
recently.
South Sea Flapper*
Taking to Clothes
San Francisco.?Too many clothes
are ruinatiou of the South Sea Isles.
Not only for romance's sake?al- .
though Joseph Darnard, bishop of
Samoa and the Union Islands, devout
ly believes In romance?but for rea
sons of health, clothing Is undesirable
In the tropics.
The bishop, Interviewed here on his
way to Itome after 2*J years In the Is
lands, Is a proponent of the theory
that aborigines are best ofT when left
alone.
He Is definitely opposed to allowing
South Sea islanders to wear trousers,
shirts or collars.
Nor, he says, should tropic maidens
adopt even the flimsy lingerie of their
civilized sisters.
The tappa or cotton cloth, worn
from neck to knees by the women and
about the loins by the men, is a suf
ficient garment for all uses In the
South Seas, the bishop declares.
'These people were constituted, born
healthy; clothing reduces their vitality
and contributes to the Ills which have
nearly exterminated some races of Is
landers," he says.
."The islanders can be civilized with
out clothing. Their condition should
be improved, but it Is wrong to revo
lutionize the ways that nature hus
taught them to live."
Bang! Playful Seal's
Life Ended by Bullet
Lynn, Mass.?A motorist on the
North Shore motor road the other day
noticed a seal swimming and diving
by the roudside. He stopped and
watched It. Other motorists stopped
and watched It. Dozens deserted their
cars and stood around the bank ap
plauding the antics of the seal.
There was a hopeless traffic Jam.
Irate patrolmen threatened, pleaded,
hut the thyong of nature lovers took
no heed. Meanwhile the road became
mortarthoroughly blocked.
A riot call brought an extra detail
and Sergeant Lyons, crack rifle shot,
and his rifle. Hang! A few bubbles
appeared where the seal had been.
Nature lovers returned to their cars;
traffic went on.
About Chamberlin
Plulnfield, N. J.?Jersey folks rend
ing *about the potential wealth of
, Clarence D. Chamberlin recall when
he seemed to be having a hard time
to make a living. He used to take
folks up in the air for $."? a flight or
less if business was dull, but once lie
carried milk In bis plane to a sick
child for nothing.
How Rude!
North Bergen, N. J.?Fellow In
court for sending a girl mash notes
said he thought the girl was in love
with him. "Don't think any woman
Is ever In love with a man," said Re
corder Alfred Miles. "They only love
themselves."
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O finds a parallel in the Tillage of g
2 llraystone not far from here. 5
5 Shutters are falling from the 2
2 windows and gardens are grow- O
o log up with weeds. Trains no 2
X longer atop at the station. o
6 The village was once called ?
2 Hoadleyvllle, after Silas Hoad- g
O ley, pioneer clockmaker of Amer- 5
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LIBBIE PRENTICE closed the
door of the little white school
and, turning the key In the lock,
hurried down the path to where
It Joined the main highway at the
foot of the hill. Llbbie had tanght
for three years In that very same lit
tle schoolhouse and so far as she
knew she would go on teaching there
for another three years, provided, of
course, she could keep on the right
side of the school board and the par
ents of her pupils. Today had been a
particularly trying one for both teach
er and pupils. The school board had
decided that It was time to Introduce
a new method of writing and Llbbie
had tried patiently to undo all she
had tried to teach and stimulate an
Interest In the newer way of bundling
the pen and pencil.- But the children
had not taken readily to the lesson
and Libble felt that her effort hid
been wasted. Tomorrow would be no
better, and the day after?but why go
on? Libble was only undergoing an
experience all too common In the life
of a person who Is trying to Instruct
youngsters who have no desire to re
ceive Instruction.
Gaining tbe highway, Libble walked
rapidly toward the village, where she
boarded. According to her nsual rou
tine she would, upon reaching the
village, go first to the postofflce to see
If she had any tnall and then to ber
boarding bouse, where she would
spend the time until dinner looking
over school papers. This task always
left her depressed, because It was the
barometer by which she knew Just
how much of her carefully given In
struction had sunk In, and all too
often she would find very little, In
deed, had taken root.
The blowing of a motor horn caused
her to step quickly to one side of the
road Just In time to avoid a big yellow
car. Glancing np, she caught a fleet
ing glimpse of a child's face looking
out of the window of the car and the
Impression was left with Libble thnt
never before had she seen such a dis
tressing little face.
Libble kept on her way and on ar
riving at the village went to the post
offlce. As she reached the building the
big yellow car drew np and a man in
livery stepped out, entered the post
offlce and went up to the window, and
as Libble entered she heard him ques
tioning the postmaster about direc
tions and nearby towns. Evidently
the answers did not please him, for
he frowned and went back to the car.
Soon he came back and asked If there
was a good place In the town where
they could put up for the night, and
upon receiving an answer again left
tbe building and drove away In the
yellow car.
"What was the trouble. Mr. Curtis?"
Libble asked the good-natured post
master.
"Well," said Mr. Curtis, "that fellow
said he was taking a party to Keys
rllle and the child got sick and the
woman doesn't dare go any farther. I
sent the man over to Mrs. Winn's?
why. that's where yon board. Isn't It,
Miss Prentice? Well, no doubt you
will see 'em there."
Arriving at Mrs. Winn's, who had a
big, roomy house and besides ber reg
ular boarders often accommodated
tourists, Llbble went straight up to
her room and started at once on her
task of correcting school papers. She
had only nicely settled down to work
when ber attention was called to the
fact that there was a child In the next
room and it was sobbing. Children
were rather unusual In Mrs. Winn's
select boarding house and Llbble
hoped the little thing would not cry
at night, because the walls were thin
and sounds carried easily.
At the dinner table that nfgbt only
I the usual boarders appeared with the
exception of the man Llbble bad seen
driving the yellow car, but as be
did not seem Inclined to talk she
learned nothing concerning tlfe child
she had seen In the passing car.
At midnight Llbble was awakened
from a deep sleep by the sharp, pierc
ing cries of the child, who occupied
the room next to ber own. The cries
continued for moments and then a
woman's voice harshly commanded si
lence, The child cried on and soon
there was another sound which fairly
brought Libble to her feet It was aa
If the woman had given the little one
a sharp slap. This of course only
made him cry the harder and the
woman continued to slap and admon
ish him to keep quiet "Surely,"
thought Llbble, "that woman must
know that a child that cries like that
Is ill or in pain at least" So. hastily
donning a kimono and slippers, she
slipped ont of her room and a moment
later knocked at the adjoining door.
Falling to get an answer she turned
the knob of the door and entered.
Sitting bolt upright In the middle of
- the big bed was the most pathetic lit
tie figure Llbble hud ever seen In all
her life. It wag a boy of iierhaps
seven yours of age. He hud a idiihs of
yellow, curly hulr which wus rumpled
in a perfect tangle, und even though
he hud cried until Ills little face wus
fairly purple, one could see that lie
was III. His little body wus racked
with sobs and he was fairly smothered
In his attempt to suppress his tears.
"Whatever Is the matter?" demand
ed Libble of the womnn who" was
bending over the bed und talking in a
high, excited voice to the little fel
low.
"I don't know, miss. I only know be
has cried until I am distracted and I
think I shall go wild," and the woman
wrung her liunds In despair. "Stop!
Bobby, stop, I say! Here is a lady
come to see you." But Bobby cried
on.
"Then Bobby, as you call him. Isn't
your child?" queried Llbble."
"Ob, do, Miss, I am only bis nurse.
Mr. and Mrs. Oraham, Bobby's father
and mother, hare been away months
for the madam's health. Bobby and
his teacher, Miss French?he has a
tutor, you know?and 1 have been at
the Grahams' camp, but Miss French
was tuken III and hud to go to the
hospltul. Bobby has missed her so
much and as It Is about time for his
parents to return I was taking him
back to town. The Grahams are very
rich people and have, a big house In
town. Master Bobby Is a very fortu
nate boy, but quite si>ol!ed. miss."
At the time the woman had been
talking Llbble had been looking ut the
child and, tlnally going up to the bed
side, she lifted the little fellow up Id
her arms und cuddled his head against
her shoulder. He snuggled gratefully
up In her arms uud put his little head
down In her neck und us his fuce
touched her clieek Libble found that
he was literally burning up with fever.
"1 urn afraid Bobby Is really 111."
she said gently to the woman, who
still stood wringing her hands, "and
it you will go down to the foot of the
front stairs you will find a telephone.
I'lease call 152. I am sure a doctor
Is needed at once."
The woman left the room and soon
a doctor came and it wax true, Hobby
was very ill. Thei doctor pronounced
it scarlet fever, and that complicated
matters as far as Libbie was con
cerned, because she could not go on
with her teaching, and as a nurse was ,
not to be had for love or money in |
that town, she was obliged to help
take care of Bobby. By the time
Bobby was well enough to be removed
to his own home he had become so
attached to Libbie that he Absolutely
refused to be sepurted from her;
When Bobby's purents came to take
the little fellow home they were quite
as much taken with Libbie us Bobby
had been and ofTered her the position
of tutor to their son. And as another
teacher had been secured to teach In
Libby's place she wus only too glud
to accept, especially as the salary was
nearly double what she had been re
ceiving, and anyway she really loved
little Bobbie so dearly she was glad
that she did not have to, lose sight of
him.
Straggling Capital
In mad) respects Angora, the new
Turkish capital, resembles a Western
boom town in the United States pass
ing through u period of prosperity.
New buildings are springing up on
every side; more automobiles and mo
tor trucks are entering every day;
additional hotels and restaurants are
being opened and there is a continual
trek of new arrivals from Constanti
nople.
Unfortunately, the original archi
tects and town planners did not draw
up careful designs for Angora, so that
the town Is already assuming a strag
giing and fur from symmetrical ap- I
pearance.
Old "Beit Seller"
Not all of the books that rank aa
"beat sellers" are fresh from the pena
of the atlthora, aa evinced by the ninth
reprintlmt In the pnat 20 years of
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," by one
publishing house. Thla claaalc, now
252 years old. has run through thou
aanda of previous editions.
Many claim that, next to the Bible,
It la the moat widely rend book In
the Kngllsh language. However that
may be, the churac-ters of Great heart.
Valiant and Stundfust und the scenes
of the Land of Beulali and Crossing
of the River will be memorable In the
minds of many generations yet to
come.?St. I'aul Pioneer-Press.
"Piccadilly"
There la some difference of opinion
concerning the derivation of the name
"Piccadilly." It U believed to be from
"plccadllls." the small stiff collars af
fected by men of fashion of the time
of James L The street was named for
the house of entertainment known 4s
"Piccadilly house."
Rea$on for Bathtub
fve often wondered, observed Cosh
Miller, cigar More philosopher. If the
person that flrst said necessity la the
mother of Invention was tryln' to get
sarcastic with the old bozo that In
vented the bathtub.?Thrift Magazine.
Sea QfMarmoia
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Windmill on Shore of Sea of Mar mora. * ~
(Prepared by th? National Oeo*raphle
8o?l*ty. Wanhlnicton. D. C.)
THK Sea of Marmora?or the Pro
pontis, If one wishes to be clas
sical?and Its shores, have prob
ably been the scent of more stir
ring events in history than any body
of water of similar size. It Is little
more than 100 miles long and some
forty miles across at Its broadest
point Thus It Is about the same size
as Lake Champlain. The Marmora Is
a sort of vestibule between the outer
and Inner doors of the Bluck sea?
the Dardanelles and the Bosporus.
The Marmora and the Black seas
are no more than twenty miles apart
at their nearest point, but It is as
tonishing wliat a difference In aspect
twenty miles may make. The Mar
mora lias much of the softness of air.
vividness of color, and beauty of scen
ery that we associate with the Aegean !
and Ionian seas. Thread the narrow j
slit of the Bosporus, however, and you
pass Into an entirely different world
sterner, barer, rockier, colder. It Is
partly perhaps that ttic Black sea Is
very much larger.
While Its two historic gateways?the
Dardanelles and the Bosporus?are
strategically the most Important fea
tures of the Marmora, that picturesque
little sea has a character of Its own,
and one not to be caught from the
deck of a Mediterranean liner or from
the windows of the Orient express.
Such Impressions as the passing tour
ist takes away are chiefly of the ttat
and treeless Thradon shore. The long
er Asiatic const, however. Is much
more Indented, and rises on the south
east to the white peak of the Bithyn
I Ian Olyinpus. A high, green headland
divides the eastern end of the Mar
! mora Into the two romantic gulfs of
j NIcomedia and Moudania. The south
I shore again Is broken by the moun
tainous peninsula of Cyzlcus.
ofT Its windy western corner lies a
group of islands, of which the largest
Is the one that gives the Marmora Itg
[ name?a mass of marble ten miles
j long, famous from antiquity for Its
quarries. Another considerable Island
Is the long, white sandsplt of Kalollm
no*, Just outside the Gulf of Mou
dania ; but best known are the Princes
Isles, a little archipelago of rock and
pine that Is a favorite summer resort
Cities en Its Shorn.
In any other part of the world this
Inland sea would lone a a" hare he
roine a place of sojourn for yachts
men and suminerers. So happily Is It
treated by sun and wind, so amply
provided with hays, capos. Islands,
mountains, forests, and all other ac
cidents of nature that make clad the
heart of the amateur explorer. As It
Is. the Xlarmora remains strangely
wild for a sea that has known so much
of life; yet Its shores are by no
means uninhabited and between them
plies many ah unhurried sail.
The focus of this quaint navigation
Is. of course. Constantinople, stundlnc
high and pinnacled on either side of
the crooked blue crack that opens Into
I he Black sea.
The busiest town In the Marmora
after Constantinople Is Panderma. on
the south shore. Joined to Smyrna by
a railway that taps one of the most
fertile districts of Asia Minor. In Its
vlctnlty exists one of the few borax
mines In the world. Another little
railway climbs through the olive
yards of the Gulf of Moudania to
Brusa. on the lower slopes of Mount
Olympus. This delightful town, the
first capital of the Turks and their
most picturesque city. Is the Hamburg
of the GeTant. enjoying a renown of
many centuries for Its hot mineral
springs. It Is also the center of an
ancient silk Industry, first Introduced
from China In the Sixth century by
Emperor Justinian. Its cocoons are
considered to rank In quality above
I those of northern Italy and are much
exported to this country and to
France.
Another ancient watering place of
the Marmora is Yalova, In the wooded
hills above the Gulf of NIco media,
whose baths were visited of old by
Emperor Constantino, and there are
many less frequented hot springs in
this region.
More numerous than the settle
ments of * today, however, are the
ruins of yesterday. Every harbor,
every Ifeudlund. has some fragment of
ancient masonry, and the workmen In
the vineyards are constantly turning up
coins, pieces of broken pottery, bits
of sculptured marble, that have come
down from who knows when or where.
About no body of water in the world,
of equal size, have stood so many
stately cities.
Question of the Straits Centuries Old.
The true question of the straits
arose as early as the Fifth ?-entury. B.
C., when Alcibiades of Athens coun
seled the people of Chrysopolls, the
modem Scutari, at the southeastern
extremity of the Bosporus, to take toll
of passing ships. Yet another aspect
of the question of the straits had al
rtftdy risen earlier in . the century,
when the Persian expeditions against
Scythla and Greece crossed the Bos
porus and the Dardanelles. What
success they had we know, and how a
counter-invasion under Alexander
crossed the Dardanelles In .*{44 H. C.?
crushing the Persians at the battle of
the Granicus:
It was in the period following the
death of Alexander, when the king,
doms of Bithynia, Pergamos and Pon
tus flourished in northern Asia Minor,
that the cities of the Marmora began
to take on their greatest Importance.
Chief among them was Cyzicus. on
the southeastern side of the peninsula
of that name. Founded earlier than
Pome or Byzantium, possessed at dlf
I ferent times by Athens and Sparta, by
the Persians and Alexander, by the
king of Pergamos and the republic
of Home, Cyzicus was long celebrated
as one of the most splendid cities of
the ancient world. Its gold stater?
were the standard of their time.
With the rise of Byzantium, how
ever, Its glory passed away. Goths
and earthquake ravaged It: Constan
tino and the Turks found It an lnex
hnustible quarry for the public build
ings of Constantinople. Today there
Is almost no trace of Its marble
among the vines and olive trees of the
peninsula.
hlcomedia and Nlcaea. In Blthynla.
were also accounted no mean cities In
their day. Indeed. Nlcoraedla. be
queathed to Home with the rest ot
his kingdom by Nicomedes III, In 7-1
B. C.. became for a moment, under
Emperor Diocletian, the capital of the
world. As for Nlcaea, It has three
times heen a capital.
Nlcaea. now Isnik, is not In all
strictness a city of the Marmora, bui
the lake on which It lies Is geological
ly a continuation of the Gulf of Man
dnnla. A place of Importance long
after the Bithynian period. It Is chief
ly remembered .today for the two
councils of the church which took
place there in 325 and 787.
A third Bithynian city, which we
have already mentioned?Brusa?has
more than one title to celebrity, not ?
least among which Is that its founda
tion was ascribed to the advice of no
less a personage than Hannibal. At
any rate, the great Carthaginian lied
after the Punic wars to the court ol
King Prusias of Bithynla and com
mitted suicide there. In 183 R. (i. to
.escape falling Into the hands of the
Romans.
The history of the greatest city ot
them aU, Constantinople, hat for near
ly 2.0U0 yean been largely the his
tory of the little sea that Ilea before
It It was founded, a little later Uuaa
Rome, by seamen from Megan.