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home : dinner : went to Pyramids "backshees" : went in a bit of the way but there were too many in & I came out again : walked over & seen the sphinx : had a camel ride back to tram : thought my exercise book was worn through : tea : went to All Saints church on my pat : very good : posted letters at Y.M.C.A. & went home : had a bread & scrapfight : ended up with tea leaves : mush quoice : bed : memorial tablets at church "quoice Kateera"
Monday 28th Feb
dull day : up at 6.30 am. break fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : seen a lot of prisoners roped together : a daily sight on this beat : flash syrup seller having a row with woman & girl : plenty of native arrests seen here : went home : dinner : took Dare to the Citadel & mosques "Quoice Kateera" : seen a lot of Ghurcas at the Citadel : nasty looking customers to fight against : tea : wrote & read till bedtime.
Tuesday 29th Feb
clear day : slept in till 7 am break : fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : met our Coastguard friend : shouted "shea" by the old "fossil" who turns out to be a big land owner marched home : dinner : I am mess orderly : went to Aerodrome & got paid 50 disasters : no letters : met my mates in the 9th & heard that Fern M.P. deserted at Freemantle : came home via Abbassieh & seen the old slave market with the "blood stains": seen some Canadians A.M.C. read till bed. Had a tea leaf fight : bed :
Wednesday March 1st
clear day : up at 6.30 & had shower to get over my bad night : could not sleep: break fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : exciting arrest : two chaps one mad with drink : like a bull in a china shop. had to tie him up in the Gharri : native "ascarri"