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in that part of the town, the streets down there are about 6 ft wide, & the people, throw all their dirty water & worse than that is some of the stuff that is dumped in those filthy streets the wonder of it to me is how on earth people can live there at all, but of course they die off like flies in the summer time.
They have a very fine Zoological Garden here, the giraffes are especially fine, some of them are nearly 20 feet high, they also have a fine lot of lions (13), bears, hippotamus, rhinoserous, wolves, monkeys, zebra's deer, leopards crocodiles, alligators, & a thousand other animals, while the grounds just swarm with birds, & ducks of all sorts they have great big ponds
for the wet footed birds & they come & go as they like, we gave them a kangaroo & wallaby when we left Egypt.
And now I come to the day we were told to pack up, for we were off to war, every one was delighted, & worked with a will the night we left Mena bonfires were burning, & concerts were in full swing all over the place, we marched out from Mena 12 oclock on the 4th of April & marched to Cairo a distance of 10 miles, the boys sang all the way down, & as we were going through streets of Cairo, early in the morning people waved & cheered us as we went through especially the French residents I'll bet they heard us coming a mile off & guessed what was the matter they greeted us with all sorts of cries & some of them followed us as far as they