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nationality do you think he is?" Bell was very interested at seeing all these different nationalities as he had never before left Australia.
Feb: 14 – 16
All drill.
Feb: 16
Visit Mosque Amur, Coptic Church and Greek Church – Bell and myself meet a Copt student, who shows us these different places of interest.
Feb: 17
Night alarm; the whole Battalion turns out, all tents packed up, everything prepared as though we were off to the Front – the whole taking something under an hour.
Feb: 18
Manoevres. 18 miles across the desert to the third tower on the Suez road.
Feb: 19
See Egyptian burial close to where we are. Signalling. Visit Boulac Museum with Bell.
Feb: 20
Visit Cairo – call upon Professor Adolfe Scarselli, a very clever artist, and his wife – it was a treat to be once more in a studio.
Feb: 21
Military duties.
Feb: 22
Visit the mosques of the Caliphs, and the Bazars – I had a splendid day with Bell B.A. – also we visit the Palace Hotel Heliopolis – it is like Fairyland to be in this lovely building and see these quiet sisters at their duties.
Feb: 23
I go down to a café in Heliopolis and work at water-