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Sunday
12/3/16
About 200 Catholics marched about 1½ miles into Zeitour Convent & attended Mass at 7.30 am – This is a very nice Convent & run by French Sisters. We passed around the hat & got a good few shillings for them.
About 100 of us took on a half day trip with a Guide named Simon, one of Cooks Reps – There were 20 Cabs employed & cost each man 20 pt. After driving through the rich & poor quarters of Cairo, we visited the Nile, which we crossed by native ferry – went thro Pharaohs Daughter's Palace, also saw where tradition has it that Moses was found in the Bulrushes by Pharaohs daughter – saw the Nilometer a marble Pillar erected 716 AD. Visited Coptic Church, 600 yrs AD built over the Cave in which the Holy Family rested during their flight from Palestine to