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Cairo, what did he expect in a city where you can buy ladies who vary in price from 2 piastres to 100, & Cairo fairly swarms with them, though I can truthfully say that they had no attraction for me, I wouldn't like to take a sister or friend of mine down even the best streets in Cairo when first we came here, though it is right as rain now, but if anyone wants their eyes opened let them go into one of the "can-can" dens down Wazza Street, & if that don't satisfy them well I don't know what else they want, and the way they used to dilute their spirits seems incredible, but its true, they use their own water, to colour it, that's a well known fact, though they have pretty well put a stop to it now, can you wonder at some of our fellows
belting them when they found this out the wonder of it is to me that they did not kill them, I saw some tremendous swarms of locquosts flying over the land here, they darken the sun almost & last for several days at a time, the natives beat them here, how they do it hundreds of them get together all armed with a bag or a palm leaf amp; they get in a line, & holler for all they are worth & beat the crops with their bushes the idea is to keep the locquosts on the move, & so starve them to death, they reckon it is very effective, they are big ugly looking things to, I got a hit in the eye one day from one of them, & he struck with such force, that anyone would think I had been fighting, for the eye went quite black