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would call at Port Said tomorrow at Sunset he also informed us that /strike>the 1st & 2nd Divisions were in France & that we would probably go there from Alexandria. Port suez is connected to Suez Proper by a narrow Isthmus along which runs a Railway line. There is a Hospital at the South end of the canal. There is a Military camp on the opposite side to Port Suez. Some of the Soldiers said they were the Essex. They were camped on a most desolate spot sand everywhere it must be Hell when a wind blows. The canal at its entrance is very narrow the channel proper is hardly wider than L. Hardt [Leichardt] canal. I was told it was 88 miles
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