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Dec 21st
a cold night spent on Kantard Station which we left @ 6 30 am in a train [made?] up of all sorts of army stores & [riggers?]
Almost immediately after leaving Kantard / which by the way is an important sailhead being used as a launching depot for ships coming up by way of the Suez Canal ) the line runs through dismal desert covered with a sparse shrub. The outlook however across the desert [if scenic? if scenery?] was --- remarkably beautiful on account of the fine sunrise & although the night was extremely cold it began [to] warm up almost immediately with the rising sun.
The road to ElArish is monotonous [&] uninteresting being practically [paractically?] desert the entire way The
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