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P.S. I cabled you this morning "Sampan and promising"; Arrived here safely and found everything satisfactory and promising.

SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL AND GHEZIREH PALACE CAIRO
THE EGYPTIAN HOTELS LTD.
QUIS AQUAM NILI BIBIT AERUM BIBET 

TelegrAddress "SHEPEARDS-CAIRO"
LIEBER'S CODE USED

Shepheard's Hotel May 16th, 1908.

My dear Colonel,
I arrived here day before yesterday having enjoyed a delightful voyage from Naples unexpectedly on an Orient Line steamer called the "Orient". My former dragoman met me at Port Said and has in advance started the work for which I particularly came - the promised watches were a happy thought, and in delivering them personally, I received in return, unlooked for 

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