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camp Heliopolis 5 p.m. Camp is only five minutes from Heliopolis. Visit Heliopolis 7 p.m. – dash into a café to have some coffee; it is great to be free, to be able to walk about when I like.
Feb: 6
Visit Cairo – I see many interesting things and des choses mechantes, tres mechantes.
Feb: 7
Visit the Pyramids – I went inside but was too tired to go up to the top. I am disappointed with the colour in Egypt which is not as beautiful as I expected.
Feb: 8
Duties in camp
Feb: 9
Meet some Egyptians at a café.
Feb: 10
A march to Cairo – this was to impress the natives and Egyptians generally that it was no use their playing any tricks.
Feb: 11
Drills all day on the desert.
Feb: 12
Same as 11th.
Feb: 13
Visit Cairo – see the mosques and several very wicked places but immensely interesting – visit Hospital at the Citadel and see the Indian wounded from Suez; one Ghurka tells us that he crept into the enemy trenches and cut the throat of five of them and got back again quite safely.
I go about Cairo with my friend Willoughby Bell, a very interesting companion – exasperating at times ; just when I would be admiring robes and colour of an Arab he would break in with "Now, what