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[[left margin in red]] Cairo [[/left margin]] 
[[red underline]] earthquakes or strong [[/red underline]] winds here. 
Then the [[red underline]] City of the Dead. [[/red underline]] A rather desolate looking quarter all houses like other Egyptian houses but where the bodies of their families are intered. Then visited the [[red underline]] Citadel. [[/red underline]] My guide points out an automobile with 2 men in fez and a white veiled dark robed lady in it. He says she is a very important lady and one of the men with a fez is a [[red underline]] Turkish Prince. [[/red underline]] He [[strikethrough]] does not [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] looks more like a German bartender and his monocle [[/red underline]] does not take away the [[red underline]] impression of coarseness. [[/red underline]] Then the Tombs of the Mamelukes, a dreary succession of meaningless 
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[[left margin in red]] Memphis Cairo [[/left margin]] 
square structures in the Palace of the [[red underline]] Mameluks, [[/red underline]] which reminds me of some of the threadbare Palazzios of Italy or Port Rico. 
Beer and other drinks are decidedly more expensive than in France. 
[[red underline]] The more I see of Moorish art and Moorish architecture, the more I come to the opinion that the so-called "Art Nouveau style so profusely used in Belgium and France is inspired by the [[strikethrough]] Tarte [[/strikethrough]] art [[strikethrough]] tastle [[/strikethrough]] taste of Islam. - same as their morals. [[/red underline]]
Feb 10. [[red underline]] Camel trip to Memphis. Mahomet [[/red underline]] has ordered two camels [[strikethrough]] trips [[/strikethrough]] at Mena one for me one for him, so when we reached there the animals were waiting with a crowd of Arabs around then