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5stand out sharply from a star spangled sky that somehow has a tint of green in its blue.
Motors glide up and down the the streets with rich Syrians, Greeks, Gyppies, Italians, Frenchmen or Britishers off to the Continental or Shepherds or to private entertainments. The roads are fine - smooth as a billiard table and clean. In this respect at any rate the Gyppies can teach Australians a lesson. The Mena road and the Heliopolis road are two of the finest thoroughfares in the world. We can easily do 50 miles per hour on the roads here, and when they have to open up the streets for pipes and repairs, they do it and repair the damage in a few hours. In Sydney it always takes a few weeks.
There is no bathing here. Im sorry. I remember the fine times we've had at Manly and I wish I could get a swim here. The Nile is taboo. There is some curious microbe in the Nile waters which gets in under the skin and causes some painful disease. But the niggers wash and bathe in the river. I dont know if it affects them.
Also we must not go without our boots and socks here (not that we want to). There are minute parasitical animaliulae which get in under the toenails and work
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