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Larry, Lucile, & one other.

[[underline]] Mar 24. [[/underline]] Wed. We got on the bus about 8:30 this morning and drove to the airport. It was more interesting because of the open markets, and peasant women walking with baskets on their heads. Many were barefoot, and a number fish peddlers. A number of baskets had 3 ft. long macruroid silver fish with long jaw like [[underline]] Trichiurus [[/underline]] but a small mackerel like tail [[image - drawing of long thin fish with a small mackerel like tail]] I didn't get a close look at them. Others had snappers probably [[underline]] Lutjanus [[/underline]]. 
   The trolleys in town are yellow and small like tunnerville trolleys. The newer streets are broad, the old ones narrow and strictly one way. The cars honk their horns alot, and there a policeman but no lights. The people are good looking as a whole and appear adequately fed. I liked Portugal alot, my one criticism is that all the land is occupied and there appear to be no wild spots except possibly in the mountains in the background. The country is probably overpopulated. 
    We left about 10:30 A.M. Our flight over Spain was interesting; it is far more rugged hilly and mountainous than Portugal and it is far less green and appears dry and rather unproductive. Some of the mountains in Southern Spain as we approached the Mediterranean, were snow capped. They were

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probably 6,000 or so feet high.
  The Mediterranean was blue as they say in books and had white caps from a stiff breeze in the eastern end. Our first view of Africa were the rugged Altas mountains which come right to the coast. They were very barren looking.
  We passed over northern Tunis about 3 p.m. and saw the coast of Sicily in the distance. We flew over Malta about 5 o'clock. It is a flat roundish island with two good harbors. It is cultivated and terraced to the hilt with a number of large towns, and a catholic church in the center surrounded with a park of the island only trees. The island appeared definitely overpopulated. 
  We saw other small rocky barren isles off the coast of Africa which were uninhabited. 
  We crossed over Alexandria shortly after dark. It was well lighted up and is on a long narrow peninsula. We reached the Cairo Airport about 12 midnight.
  The airport smelled like a camel stable, though I saw no camels. The characters were varied in dress and appearance some in uniforms had fezes, and others the cloth Arab headress. 
  We ate at the airport and continued about 1 A.M. flying over the desert and the Suez canal in bright moonlight. 
  The Arabian desert was hilly and gutted with

Transcription Notes:
page 13, line 15: perhaps he wrote "parts of the island only trees" instead of "parks"