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Many [[red underline]] Sudanese [[/red underline]] or Nubians have 3 [[strikethrough]] slat [[/strikethrough]] parallel [[red underline]] scars [[/red underline]] on each cheek. Am told this is an operation [[red underline]] considered indispensable to any young man who has a head ache [[/red underline]] or pains in the head. - "Lets the pain out." 
Feb.8. [[strikethrough]] Everything [[/strikethrough]] Contracted with [[red underline]] Cook's [[/red underline]] to furnish dragoman and horse carriage [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] to go to [[red underline]] Pyramids & Sphinx [[/red underline]] for 2₤7 or about 14 dollars, [[underline]] supposed [[/underline]] to have all expenses included. My carriage is a 2 horse Victoria with an Egyptian driver wearing dark blue frock coat, gilded buttons with a royal crown and a red fez.  Next to him sits a little grizzened dragoman with ditto Fez and a kaki woolen overcoat. Dragoman 
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speaks English as long as it remains in every day vocabulary.  [[red underline]] Drive thru new Cairo over Bridge on Nile. _ Dahabiah's or Native sail boats with lateen sail. - Also private houseboats. [[red underline]] Few if any power boats. [[/red underline]] Also Cook's Excursion houseboats with which to ascend nile. [[red underline]] Long rows of camels going slowly and placidly driver sitting on saddle with one leg over [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] pomnel [[/strikethrough]] pommel.  Black robed women, fellaheen, arabs, etc. [[red underline]] Camels [[/red underline]] carry two baskets [[red underline]] filled with dirt [[/red underline]] from old Cairo which fellaheen want to [[red underline]] use as [[strikethrough]] bal [[/strikethrough]] fertilizer [[/red underline]] and carry as ballast on their return trip from town. Irrigation canals everywhere.  Black muddy rich soils. Villages made of black mud sun-