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us that our training was over & that he was proud to be in command of such a Brigade, & that we were fit for war, how pleased we all were for we used to reckon that we would never see the front.
The next day we done nothing so another chap & myself set out to have a look at the old Step pyramid & the temples & tombs of Ti, we reached them after a walk of about 2 hours, & we had a look at the old tombs first the sides of the wall are covered with beautiful coloured plaster work depicting the lives of the people of those far off days a trifle of 4000 years or so, it appears that this Ti who had all these drawings done was a great Sportsman & he shows in these temples where he
was buried, all the different sports they used to follow, such as deer-hunting – spearing & netting hippopotamus, hunting crocodiles, catching & netting fish, & they show the work on the farm of those days, the same old plough is still to be seen in use to-day, & pretty much the same methods are followed donkey's, cats, birds & etc are shown, but the best thing I reckon there is the sacrifice of the sacred Bulls, showing the men killing the beast & then cutting it up we spent best part of the day here, & then towards evening we started for our camp, we went down towards some swamps, & passed hundreds of wild duck, it made me long for a shotgun. The next day we marched back to Mena, & everyone was very glad to get his pack off, & have a spell