Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 99
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[Page 99]
as to wether I passed or not. Arthur did fairly well. The ranges are occupied every day now and a fellow never knows when he will have to do some genuinesniping. I am writing, laying on my chest across the tent, and the cootes won't leave me alone, thus the blots. Eleven of us made up a party, and we went a trip around Cairo. The first placve we went to was Sultan Hassan's mosque, six hundred years old. It was once bombarded by Napoleon and you can see where the cannon balls hit the walls. They only made a hole in the stone about six inches deep. In one of the holes you could see a cannon ball about six inches in diameter still stuck there. The government are repairing the mosque now which is in a very bad state. Right next door to this mosque Sultan Rifai(?) built another on in a larger and more elaborate plan, about three hundred years later. Well, I never imagined there was ever anything in this world so wonderful and so magnificent. Tehre are carpets on the floor which cost over a thousand pounds apiece. The walls are made of marble, granite, and alabastre