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<p class="page" id="a5658028">[Page 28]</p><p>Any how we got aboard about 11.30 am, and turned in, for we were just about beat, Our swags are pretty heavy and when one carries them head, there, and every where, one suffers <strike>from</strike> with fatigue any how about 12.45 we <strike>were</strike> received orders to get on the wharf as quick as possible as there was some mistake, We then marched about 1 ½ miles to Camp A. where we camped until the evening of the 7th We were actually granted leave from six until ten, to see the sights, I think it was about up to them to grant it too not once seconds leave since April 13th until then, Alexandria is a very big town, in fact the biggest in Egypt. We went round and saw the sights, visited the Casino and the American Kursal [Kursaal], The Casino is in short a miniature Monte Carlo, while the Kursal is the Cabaret, a place where one can eat, drink and be merry and see music hall turns at the same time, (This is a very crude way of expressing or explaining but I dont feel in too good a humour this morning. The way we are banded from pillar to post is disgraceful.) Well any how we spent a most enjoyable evening and arrived home about 12 instead of 10 but we werent even asked for our passes so [indecipherable] everything was so nice.</p>