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[[top margin in red]] Nile Boats [[/in red]]
done by climbing on the ^[[boom]] pole real monkey acrobatics.
Boom pole made of two or three lengths lashed together 
Foremast [[strikethrough]] show [[/strikethrough]] is stopped about 1/2 palm from stern. The bow runs upright in the air almost perpendicularly so [[strikethrough]] that the [[/strikethrough]] as to make some kind of triangular bulwark on the bow which looks like the bill of a hawk
[[images: 2 drawings, one of the side view of the bow, the other of the front view of the bow]]
A long motor ride and very expensive. Should have gone there by train or by boat. Settled accounts with my dragoman, and find that all these trips cost me considerably more than if I had used Cooks Co
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[[top margin in red and underlined]] Dragomen [[/in red]]
[[red underline]] Dragomon. [[/red underline]] He evidently has been generous with backsheesh and has played the Lord towards his brethren 
My expenses in excursions for the last [[red underline]] 3 days [[/red underline]] amount to about [[red underline]] $100. [[/red underline]] With Cooks itinerary and private dragoman they would have cost about one half of this.
[[strikethrough]] Packing trunks [[/strikethrough]]
Feb. 12. [[red underline]] Packing trunks [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] engaged [[/strikethrough]] received passage on [[red underline]] Italian Steamer to Syracuse. [[/red underline]] Find they charge me $200 for this 2-3 ^[[day]] trip!
Hotel bill. Cash etc. Yesterday [[red underline]] cabled to Celine that I am going up the Nile and my address [[/red underline]] will be Cook - Cairo till beginning of March.