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In a small town on the banks of the inevitable Nile a small colony of white people live there, government officials & their families I imagine. The stock phrase to colonial population which is fairly large is "good night: at all times of the day & night small urchins & grown men vociferate goodnight to you & even aged venerable looking old "Hags" murmur this magic greeting to you in your ear as they pass. We had arrived, a small party of us, with one horse truck & a baggage van, spending having spent the whole day on the train on a diet of neat whiskey & hard boiled eggs (we had forgotten to bring any rations), and almost the first
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