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No 12

Heliopolis
Egypt 13.8.15

Dear Dad Mum & All.

Your letter dated July 6th. came to hand to-day.

I cannot imagine why the papers were not allowed to publish the fact that we disembarked at Alexandria on June 12th.

I can think of very little to write about unless I continue on the above and give you a rough idea of what I have seen since dis-embarkation on at Alexandria on June 12th.

It was a grand run for some eighty miles along the bank of that grand & ancient and river the river which for generations has supported and fed the oldest of all civilizations supplying all their wants. The greater part of the country over which we passed was beautifully mantled in deep green, the mud villages like an inky smudge on an oil painting, seemingly set there to mar an otherwise almost incomparable picture. (Tis that alright – as Garvice would put it)

We passed miles of, what I believe was, Maize and Cotton fields.

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