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nese.  All these tombs and skulls and [[red underline]] bleached bones [[/red underline]] and graves [[red underline]] remind me that I am nearly 60 years old and my turn will soon be there. [[/red underline]]  
Tombs and white limestone give an impression of newness and remind me that [[red underline]] some of those reconstructed tombs in the New York Metropolitan Museum give an excellent idea of the tombs as found here. All seems new and as of yesterday. [[/red underline]] Dry climate and only white dust helps to it
Whenever we pass an arab village the children cry out [[red underline]] "Sai-da" [[/red underline]] (Good day) followed by [[red underline]] Backseesh! [[/red underline]]
Finally get to [[red underline]] Memphis, mostly Date Palm Grooves [[/red underline]] (photo on the camel)  The 
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[[left margin in red]] Memphis [[/left margin]]
[[in red and underlined]] Memphis [[/in red]]
[[strikethrough]] liq [[/strikethrough]] statue of Rameses I - smile on his face - lying down below a shed, then Rameses II and a Sphinx. See Baedeker. Memphis village [[strikethrough]] tha [[/strikethrough]] is new - as far as new goes - same dirty mud house. But [[red underline]] happy dirty children everywhere, and smells, and manure and 4-5 flies on each face of each child and they do not seem to mind it. [[/red underline]] Allah is there - hence sores and blindness! Finally arrive at station. Camels discharged Basheeh. Then train to [[red underline]] Cairo [[/red underline]] along [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] same cultivated fields. Men dressed as Europeans in first class with red turbans, not a word but Arabic. 
[[red underline]] Women [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] wear [[/strikethrough]] wear [[red underline]] heavy silver bracelets [[/red underline]] on their bare