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embark tomorrow. Reached Port Suez at sunset sunken ship just outside harbour. Seven Dutch ships in Harbour Aeroplanes circling round. Novelty to us
Wednesday June 20
Disembarked at daybreak. Our first introduction to the Egyptian who put the hard word on us for Cigarettes & Backsheesh as he called it. Boarded some cattle trucks & away we went. Imagine our condition, a boiling hot day, full dress, an open truck and travelling up till 1 O,clock practically through sand. The native Town of Suez is a very ramshackle affair. Looks to me like a mass of mud hovels with flat roofs and the occupants dirty. Arrived at Moascar the military detail camp and had to

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