Charles Kingsley has this to say of Antony’s new retreat: The eastward view from Antony’s old home must be one of the most glorious in the world, save for the want of verdure and of life. For Antony, as he looked across the Gulf of Akaba, across which, far above, the Israelites had passed in old times, could see the sacred peaks of Sinai, flaming against the blue sky with that intensity of hue which is scarcely exaggerated, it is said, by the bright scarlet color in which Sinai is always painted