Content Warning: Racist Descriptions of Indigenous People on Socortra (Yemen).

Jack comments on the engine room, how fast the ship travels, using electicity versus using gas with ships, traveling the Gulf of Aden (gulf of the Indian Ocean) to Persia, passing Cape Guardafui, Somaliland [Italian colony] (Somalia) and Socortra (Yemen), and reachng the Red Sea and Suez in a week. He writes a racist comment about the local inhabitants of the island of Socortra and in relation to British governments payments to them.