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70 [[top margin in red]] Up Nile [[/top margin]] with [[red underline]] Coptic monastery [[/red underline]] [[underline]] Feb 15. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] Starte [[/strikethrough]] Boat started about 6 A.M. At 10:30 AM we stop at a special landing where hundreds of yelling Arabs young old and middle aged and arab children are waiting for [[red underline]] backseesh [[/red underline]] and donkeys are saddled, to take us to the Grotto tombs of [[red underline]] Speos Artemidos [[/red underline]] and the tombs of the [[red underline]] holy cats. [[/red underline]] Where mummified cats were buried. Then further [[red underline]] trot on donkeys to tombs of Beni Harram [[/red underline]] - My donkey's name is [[red underline]] Rameses [[/red underline]] which seems a favorite name here. Other tombs in the niches see Baedeker. Some of the people here have spoiled the inscriptions by [[red underline]] scratching other figures. [[/red underline]] Dragoman [[end page]] [[start page]] 71 [[top margin in red]] Assiut [[/top margin]] says this was done by [[red underline]] early Christians long ago and more recently by Arabs. [[/red underline]] Wild ducks and Herons. Same placid water. Feb. 16. [[strikethrough]] Yesterday [[/strikethrough]] Until yesterday I had as table companion [[red underline]] Mr. Strater [[/red underline]] a business man from Amsterdam. To day with the arrival of more passengers, Dr [[red underline]] Jacoby a neurologist [[/red underline]] of New York and his wife were shifted to our table. Strater is a well informed man for a business man and Dr. Jacoby [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] seems a man of scholarly tendencies. Boat drops at Assiut which seems [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] an important town and railway station. Sent a letter to [[red underline]] Celine. [[/red underline]] Several other Cook steamers there also a chartered Cook-steamer house