Item 03: Frank Hurley war diary, 24 January-13 August 1918 - Page 92
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[Page 92]
found the most pictorial setting down In the Mena village, where one has glorious glimpses through the date palms. Around Mena itself, the plain in beautiful condition. The crops are well advanced, and thriving luxuriantly. Nature rewards labors here bounteously, and it would be difficult to find more arable and fertile lands than these flat stretches irrigated by Nile waters.
The Pyramids, now that the glamour of expectancy and curiosity of inspecting them for the first time has worn off, I was able to view them from a more mechanical standpoint.
This analysing method amassed me more than ever; and striving to compare their prodigious mass with any of our present age architecture, I felt it like comparing the efforts of pigmies against Titans.