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Dec 21st
A cold night spent on Kantara Station [El-Qantarah, Egypt] which we left at 6.30 am in a train made up of all sorts of army stores & niggers. Almost immediately after leaving Kantara (which by the way is an important railhead being used as a landing 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 of Sinai 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 El Arish is monotonous & uninteresting being practically desert the entire way. The
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