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very good : Collossal statue of King Amenhotep 3rd & his Queen Thai 1400 B.C. perfect : about 25 ft high by 12 ft across : a smaller figure is cut between them : two old boats good 945 B.C. : tea : Dare & I went to Kursaal (buckshees) & it was a good show : a couple of items a bit smutty : tableaux of nations good : screen for each one : Italy, Russia, Belgium wrapped in thought & a few ribbons, Servia, Japan, France & England : each troupe danced & then all joined in a combined dance : qoice kakera : finished up with a tableaux showing a trench manned : other turns good : came home via Soldiers club & bed :
Friday Feb 25th
clear hot day : up at 6.30 am breakfast : fell in 7.45 am & marched to beat : arrested one drunk : seen a lot more funerals : one had a band in front & a lot of women followed riding on "carts" : had their faces painted blue : came home: dinner : wrote letters till tea : I am mess orderly to day : after tea I went to Walkers soldiers home (scotch): wrote & then had a good bible talk with one of the women on the Jews return to Palestine : also talked with the young man there & got some good reading in the bible shown to me : bed : sent home a guide book of the museum
Saturday 26th Feb
clear day : up at 6.30 am : breakfast : fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : shouted "coffee" all round by a Gypo : very nice, very good, very clean : nothing exciting on the shift : went home : dinner : had a donkey ride round the bazaars in afternoon (2 disasters) : found a cheapplace for cushion covers : tea : read & wrote till bedtime :
Sunday 27th Feb
windy dusty day : up at 6.30 am break fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : seen a flash funeral : white hearse & men running in front : nothing exciting : went