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[[left margin in red]] Heliopolis [[/left margin]]
younger boys and children learning to read and write the Koran under the directions of a dirty looking schoolmaster who uses freely a long stick on their backs so as to call their attention. Sore eyes sores on the face and blind eyes quite common. [[red underline]] Filth, dirt and superstition and fanaticism. Thus seems Islam and explains the trend and situation of these countries. [[/red underline]]  Then drove thru more old streets with picturesque but dirty little shops. - meat vegetables, onions etc etc. 
Then to [[red underline]] Heliopolis
[[/red underline]] After seeing [[red underline]] Heliopolis [[/red underline]] Mohamet brought me to the [[red underline]] Garden of the Virgin [[/red underline]]
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[[left margin in red]] Barrage of the Nile [[/left margin]]
Mary. A knotted twisted old tree in an enclosure said to [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] be the tree under which Joseph and Mary rested on their flight with the infant Jesus. Mahomet explains it his own way: "The Virgin Mary ^[[Miriam]] came here with little Moses which she wanted to hide from her father after she had found him in the bullrushes of the Nile"!
Afternoon took a motor-car and drove to the [[red underline]] Barrage of the Nile. [[/red underline]] Was more interested in seeing the sailships make the locks. "Little Museum of the barrage saw a model of a sail ship of which I note down approximately the dimensions as follows: I measured the model with the palm