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P. S. Any purchases I may make here shall be so arranged that 146. payment may be sent from Detroit about Sept. 1st, after your return from Mackinaw. C.L.F. QUIS AQUAM NILI BIBIT AERUM BIBET THE EGYPTIAN HOTELS LTD. TelegrAddress: "SHEPHEARDS-CAIRO" LIEBER'S CODE USED Shepheard's Hotel Cairo July 28th, 1909. Dear Colonel Hecker. I arrived here night before last having enjoyed a delightful three day's voyage on the "Schelswig" from Naples. Yesterday morning, I cabled you "Sanctum - arrived here safely and well, pleasant voyage. Sapience - detained here. Stuccando - August 5th". My original plans were to leave Cairo August 2nd and sail for Shanghai on the S.S. "Derfflinger" on the following day from Port Said. 180