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dried clay. Our Cairo party includes the guide W. Dixon of E. Maitland like the Nids & myself. The country looks lonely on the way down we had a dusty ride of it. Zagazig is the nearest town to Tel-el-Kebir on the way I noticed the pumping water on the Archimedean Screw principle a man or boy serving as the motive power. we passed the town of Benha, the streets of all these towns including some parts of Cairo are frightfully narrow & the houses look like little ruins on account of the walls being higher than the roofs. The married women wear a thing like a few brass bobbins between their eyes & reaching down to their nose tips. On reaching Cairo we first went to the Wassa on Donkeys. My Donkey gave me a bad time some of the streets were only about 7 feet wide & the Donkey would not go slow he galloped all the way untill I explained to the boy that I couldn't ride, the streets were packed withpeople
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