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the smooth face has been broken by the weather, once on top, & you feel inclined for a spell, I can tell you, some one took an Australian flag up with them, & it fluttered from the top for months, this pyramid was, placed out of bounds later on for there were too many accidents on it, & quite a number was killed. The other pyramid Cheops" is a fairly easy climb.
After we had been at Mena a little while, we began to settle down to our drill, we were well supplied with blankets, 4 per man & big double ones at that Wagga & I slept together outside all the while, & it was tip-top for the sand was soft & clean it did not have a particle of earth in it, & it was impossible to get dirty
in it. On the - of December we were kept in camp, for that was the date of the British Annexation of Egypt Xmas Day we spent in camp we had our mess huts built then, & we had our dinner in them we decorated them with all sorts of things & had a good dinner After Xmas our training commenced in earnest, & for the next 2 months this was our drill reveille at 6. A.M. breakfast 7. fall in 7.30. march about 4 miles at a good rattling pace across the burning sand in which at every step, you sank to your ankles, after we had reached our drill ground, we had a spell of about 10 minutes, & then we would drill constantly till 12 oclock & then we would have our lunch which consisted of a dry little roll of bread