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After this was finished we were all "fallen in" & marched down to the trams where they were waiting for us, some of the boys done a get & never turned up for about 7 day's, in a few minutes we were in, & off, down a long street lined on either sides by trees on our way out we crossed one of the finest bridges in the world, the Nile where this bridge spans it, is about ¼ of a mile wide, & the bridge carries 2 lines of tram's, a fine big asphalt road & 2 footpaths, she looks a very strong bridge, it was built by French engineers, in a distance of about 1 mile there are no less than 3 of these enormous bridges, the traffic is that heavy that they were forced to build them so as to be able to cope with the work
They are all built so as they can be opened to let the big Nile barges through, one of them is opened by electricity & the others the steam tugs pull open, after crossing the big bridge, we went about another ½ mile, & we came to a branch of the Nile, with another nice little bridge over it, by this time we were approaching Giza, which is about halfway between Cairo & the Pyramids, & every one was beginning to crane their necks to get a view of the Pyramids, at last we spotted them, & very fine they looked in the moonlight with a light fog hanging round them, the Nile was in flood at this time, & all the flats were under water, which made the country look like a big lake, I thought it was at the time, but