CHAPTER XXI

_Love, Music--and a Warning_ The Water Festival! As our barge rounded a bend in the canal, under the archways of dangling colored lights, the festival spread before us. Involuntarily I stood up to gaze. The canal opened into an artificial lake--a broad circular sheet of water some 800 _helans_[17] in diameter. Sloping hillsides enclosed the lake--hillsides which I saw were terraced with huge banks of seats in tiers one above the other. [Footnote 17: About 4,000 feet.] The seats were crowded with people. White ribbo…