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the usual steamship routes. - Tropical storms of short duration often passed over us, these could be seen approaching, and after drenching us with rain for a few minutes, would leave again a sea of calm, and a sky of cloudless blue.
Indeed a pleasant trip during which I learned many things, and made many friends.
Nov 30th
Disembarked at Suez, after lying at the Canal-mouth (on which played a search-light) all night. - Suez, a lazy, hot, sleepy, town, a combination of sand, niggers, and flies. - By train (via Ismalia) to Cairo, passed desert lands broken here & there by "oasis-villages" and pestered by Arabs selling oranges. Detrained at Zeitoun and encamped on the desert at Abbassia (famous for its barracks) - Training hard here - on Christmas day "Billy-cans" and "Comforts" were distributed.
1916
Jan 1st
New-Year saw us at Kasr-el-Nil Barracks, and on picquet duty in the city to quell possible riots which however were not as serious as was anticipated.