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As we approached the buoyed channel to the Harbour the water appeared a light chalky blue the land & the city dancing in sunlight & most alluring. Space. Possibly the thought that we had escaped the fate that overtook a transport two days previously enhanced the effect, but that approach to Alexandria from the sea remains a delightful memory of colour. Cairo needs I think no word from me it has been over described. I may however suggest timidly that the glories gorgeous colour of the Orient which it has always been noted for in our guide books was more apparent to me in the gay colours of the native costume than in the general local colour of the place.
My first job was to make some small paintings of our great base camp at Moascar near Ismalia a few miles from the Suez Canal and here my first impressions again were worth recording. Miles & miles of tents and desert, thousands of sweating sunbronzed men and beautiful horses. Tents by the bye that is miles of tents out there to the artist make give a continuous