Item 01: Arthur L. Hellmann diary, 17 August-31 December 1914 - Page 31

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advance guard) entertained at 7.45.  The train moved off en route for Cairo at 10 past 8.    Expect to reach there at 1 p.m.    Great scenery.   Passed heaps of cotton fields on the edge of the Nile.   At 1 p.m. we reached Cairo.   After we got all the horses out of the train, the Egyptian Gov. gave us all a roll of bread, cheese & cocoa.   We watered horses at the barracks & then moved off on foot to the Camp at Mena  near the Pyramids, a distance of 10 miles, terribly tired but interesting nevertheless.   We have now