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some photos of primitive water bailing for irrigation. The man on the pole of the outfit doing a regular walking beam act. Some of the men here attending to this work are stark naked [[red underline]] Temperature [[/red underline]] in my room only [[red underline]] 60-65°F [[/red underline]] - altho' it does not feel cold. Spring clothing and a good undershirt do not feel warm at all. - [[red underline]] Land of sunshine [[/red underline]]
Feb 18. 1923 Sunday. Passed a bridge but had to wait about 2 hours before it was opened.
Further on a man in a little boat carrying a lateenized lug sail threw a bundle of bamboo sticks to our sailing. [[red underline]] Dragoman says he is the son of a holy man [[/red underline]] a sheik
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whose ^[[domed]] tomb we see on the banks of the river, and the bundle contains a [[red underline]] little piece of the holy-man's robe, and the sailors will put money [[/red underline]] into it and throw the bundle of floating bamboos back into the river (which they did) and the man fetched it with his sail boat. Money to be used for the upkeep of the tomb and for providing flour etc for the pilgrims who visit the tomb. 
Am told the great [[red underline]] saintliness of the man consisted in that he never did any harm and used to sit on a manure-heap near the Nile, talking to crocodiles, [[/red underline]] reading the [[red underline]] Koran and working miracles [[/red underline]] Stopt at 5:30 P.M along the bank in sight of [[red underline]] Luxor [[/red underline]] I went ashore. [[strikethrough]] Felo [[/strikethrough]] Notice