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only walked round the big one : only went for the trip & it was good : a native band on the tram played latest ragtime music : all tram rides "brickshees piquet" : the Wazza beat did not get home till about midnight : sleeping on a mattress is quice Kakira after the hard ground:
Wednesday Feb 23rd
clear day : up at 6.30 am: breakfast : marched to our beat ; mortality here is heavy as we seen a lot of native funerals : nothing exciting excepting a bike smash & making a nigger give a good disaster to an englishwoman (he had given her a crook one) bucks hused a few fruits & fags : marched home : dinner : went to the aerodrome & got paid 50 disasters : mac & Sid came to Zetoun to see if the 9th were coming in but S M said "lah" : back to barracks & had a read : Wazza lot home about 10 pm : exciting times pulling men out of bed & arresting drunks etc : scenes after dark down Wazza "mush quice" : The officers here are not showing the men much of a example : French girls : cigarettes & drink : had a look at Arab Museum : very old & interesting : glass : pottery : wood inlaid : clothes etc : bed :
Thursday Feb 24th
clear day : up at 6.30 am breakfast : fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : nothing startling happened except that we seen the prettiest girl I have seen over here : got some French boys to write their autographs : very intelligent : marched home : dinner : after dinner I went to the Egyptian Museum : very interesting : rock coffins marvellous : some eight ft square : mummies perfect & in great numbers : two big crocodiles there also a fine specimin of a big fish about 5 ft long : some nice mummies & skeletons of animals : sacred rams mummies perfect, wool & all tools cutlery & other things