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<p class="page" id="a5658020">[Page 20]</p><p>To day is the 16th of May, it is a good while since I made an entry but things have been going on in the same old routine, meanwhile we have passed through Suez Canal and are at present at Port Said We got to the begining of the Canal <strike>of</strike> on the 13th inst Sat. When we stopped for a good while. We then proceded up the first stage of the Canal as far as Bitter Lake When we anchored for the night, That was Sunday the 14th, The next day we again got a move on and got into Port Said on the afternoon of the 15th, Where we are at present the canal is a fine work of engineering, one can throw a stone from the deck to the land on either side, and when one considers the size of this boat, (18,000 tons) it seems rather impossible, The canal is well guarded, The English Tommies are at the other end, near the Persian Gulf then are the Australian Artillery and various other regiments along the banks also, In fact I dont suppose there is a mile of it, that isn't patrolled some time during the day. Leave was forbidden as per usual</p>