Part 01: Alan Fraser Fry letters, 8th August 1914- 28 January 1917 - Page 159
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makes 6/- a day. We get paid every 10 days, but it is marvellous how the money goes here. The piastre is like our penny, and very few things are less than a piastre, whereas the value of a piastre is 2 ½ d.
A week or two ago, I sent a lot of negatives home by a friend of mine, and in the ten were some of the coins used over here. The very small copper ones are ¼ millimes, and it takes 10 millimes to make a piastre, so they are only used by the natives. Did you receive the negs. OK? I did not want to send them through the post, as they may have gone astray, and I don't want to lose them for anything. I have taken some more, and will enclose some prints with this, the negs, I will send along later. I got a very unique photo a week or so ago. There was a riot mutiny out at the camel