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Naturally I have dined at these places just to see what things were like. You know my curious nature. I want to see everything in a place I am in even if it takes my last penny. I am enclosing the bill. You will see that the bill is made up in piastres. Two of us went to this the Continental for dinner. When we had finished, the nubian sub-waiter brought the bill on a plate. The money was placed on this and with the bill, which was returned receipted with the change. Everything is carried out so quietly, that one would wer also think a machine was doing the waiting. I am also enclosing a tram ticket and a few stamps. The latter I will enclose whenever I get them, so that you can keep them for me at home. The trams here run two classes. The front closed one is the first class and the fare is double of that in the second. All soldiers are allowed to travel half fare. That means we can go from Mena to Cairo  €“ eight miles  €“ for one piastre or 2 ½d. All the trams round Cairo are electrically driven.

Since being here I have had a chance of looking up Bert Hawkesworth, with the Victorian lot. He is in "B" Company 8th Battalion. Though it is just

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