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this before owing to so many of the troops using it and the water being so seldom changed.
The long stretch of Acacia trees which line the road to the Pyramids have taken on leaves of a nice light green tint which looks very pretty.
May 29th Sat. In Cairo.
Went to the gardens with I. M. The gardens are at their loveliest at this time. It is simply glorious to walk through these gardens.
Twenty eight re-inforcements have arrived at Ghezirah. This should make things much lighter on us if we should get busy again.
June 1st Tues.
Weather still continues to be hot.
In Cairo. It is amusing, if one happens to stand at any point waiting on a tram etc, how the native urchins gather round and jabber away in their native tongue to you. I found this is a good opportunity to learn a few words of their languages. The method adopted is to say English – "tea" "Arabic"?. If they understand straightway, the answers comes Arabic "Shay". This method makes on the possessor of numerous necessary words quite simply and incidentally causes some amusement amongst these black urchins.
June 2nd 3rd 4th Frid
Saw the sun set from the Citadel. Visited the Mohammed Ali Mosque along with D. & I.M.