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Tuesday 29/1/18Breakfast hurried affair – then donkeys & away to Alabaster quarries & how wonderful to see the pure white stone – some amber – rising out of the sandy desert & just the one field of it – in Egypt took 6 months for an oblisk to be got from here to Luxor (presumably). Returning my donkey fell 2ce & I over his head, result, cut finger, strained elbow joint, skinned face & black eye. Aust. soldier insists on my riding his "donk" back, hurried flight for train & so to Luxor the party of 18 Sisters & various followers go. Major Mills & Milligan in our carriage (for lunch). Luxor 5 p.m. Arm seen by M.O., Bateson, put in sling, after dinner boat to Karnak & in the moonlight how grand it is.
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