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& it was worth the trouble we took in climbing them right at our feet lay our camp, & the green fields stretched right away up to Cairo & away beyond, the Nile was like a silver ribbon threading its way past villages & palm groves till it disappeared in the distance miles & miles away, the sun was just rising at the time, & as it threw its beams upon Cairo, the tall spires & minarets glinted like gold & silver, & all sorts of colours seemed to spring from the mosques, & the citadel as the sun rose higher & higher, while the submerged flats at our feet looked like a lake of molten silver with the lovely avenue of trees mirrored in it so faithfully, turning round you face the Libyan
desert, & I can tell you from the top of these pyramids, you get a lovely view, this morning there happened to be a fairly heavy fog hanging over the desert, & it was a splendid sight to see the sun breaking through the clouds of mist, throwing all sorts of pretty colour on it it seems very funny, you might say right at your feet lay some of the richest ground on the face of this earth, & then if you turn round, you can say there lies some of the worst on earth, for you are looking on a desert that stretches, as the Arabs say, for the distance of a 1000 days march, & is absolutely waterless Wagga & I sat for a good 10 minutes & looked on this beautiful scene & then I became aware of someone