He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Solomon.

• 他瞻仰了那些使亚丁成为印度洋的直布罗陀的海防要塞，同时欣赏了那些巧夺天工的地下贮水池。两千年来，继所罗门王工程师之后，有好些英国工程师参加了这儿的修建工作。