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[[left margin in red]] To Memphis [[/left margin]] 
Irrigation and clover on the left. 
[[red underline]] Some Pyramids, then tombs. [[/red underline]] Chambers cut out[[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] ^[[in]] the white [[red underline]] saw [[/red underline]] limestone rock. Hieroglyphs and pictures. 
Then the [[red underline]] tombs of the sacred Bulls. [[/red underline]] see Baedeker. - Big monolithic granite [[red underline]] tombs [[/red underline]] with ditto slabs. [[red underline]] All have been robbed. Granite [[/red underline]] was brought from [[red underline]] Aswan. [[/red underline]] Then to rest house. Some Yankees camping with the brother of my dragoman, yelling and greeting.  
3 white conical tents Army style. The Yanks have been camping in [[red underline]] Fayum [[/red underline]] which lies beyond the hill ridge. At the rest house [[strikethrough]] f [[/strikethrough]] created by the 
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[[left margin in red]] Excavations to Memphis [[/left margin]]
Government ate my two rolls tinned Pâté de foie gras and 1/2 bottle white French wine. Air is delicious, cool in shade comfortable in summer similar to San Diego Cal. in winter. 
Then again on [[red underline]]the Camel and more tombs. [[/red underline]] Went to new excavations going on under direction of an English overseer Men carrying away rubbish and stones in baskets. Are rather quick at it. On my way found [[red underline]] several arm and tigh bones of unearthed skeletons lying along the trail. [[/red underline]] Dragoman tells me they are [[red underline]] bones of the slaves who made the pyramids: [[/red underline]] while walking along found [[red underline]] a well preserved bleached skull, [[/red underline]] - elongated form same as Arabs or Suda