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at Alexandria, & entrained for the camping ground of Tel-el-Kebir, where we arrived the following morning. A most uninteresting place to be sure despite the fact that the Dervish trenches are still visible, & that Martini cartridges & bits of shells & bullets can still be found there. The usual strip of of arable land fringing the Ismailia Canal & supporting the same miserable crowd of fellahin with their mud villages, donkeys, camels. But the once odoriferous & unimportant village of Tel-el-Kebir has in the month of January 16 reached a position of high importance. Thousands of troops are encamped on the flat bordering the canal & their presence has drawn the more enterprising Egyptians & Greeks with their usual wares to the mud city. The canal – the chief path for Egyptian commerce – despite the proximity of the