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72 [[in red]] Assuit [[/in red]] boat with an american party of tourists aboard. Pretty well along the Nile Large barrage and lock. Along Nile three or four sail houseboats - [[red underline]] dahabeeah's [[/red underline]] only one seems in commission The other seems covered up in duck. Also ^[[1 small]] boat yard and a hull under construction Made some photos. Later on our whole party went on donkeys. to the [[red underline]] necropolis [[/red underline]] of the town. More tombs in the limestone mountains. [[red underline]] Mummies [[/red underline]] etc. Also mummy of the [[red underline]] Sacred Wolf. = Lupopolis [[/red underline]] as the Greeks called the town Donkeys [[red underline]] ride easier [[/red underline]] and better than yesterday. Below an Egyptian modern cemetery with its hundreds of domes Farther below [[end page]] [[start page]] 73 [[in red]] Assuit [[/in red]] in the distance the City of [[red underline]] Assuit [[/red underline]] with its dozens of minarets. then still farther the Nile as a green strip thru the desert with the base limestone hills behind. Around the boat which is taking in coal vociferous seller of special metallic woven shalls ^[[ [[strikethrough]] shawls [[/strikethrough]] ]] and the usual trading and bidding coal here [[strikethrough]] has [[/strikethrough]] is Welsh coal and costs [[strikethrough]] 10 to [[/strikethrough]] 8 to 10 English pound per ton. Feb. 17. This is a [[red underline]] delicious climate [[/red underline]] where one is absolutely sure of the weather. Blue skies and same temperature and little or no wind. This afternoon wind freshened to a little breeze and [[?]] were sailing briskly - about 4-5 knots up stream with polemast horizontal. made
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Verified dahabeah is a passenger ship on the Nile. (There are about 6 different spellings, none of which is used here)