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[[in red]] The Nile [[/in red]]
regular rows of pits in the sand flats denuded by low water. Dragoman says there are [[red underline]] holes in which water melons will be planted [[/red underline]] during the low water season.
Fields of poppies - opiums? Then a wall along mud villages. Herds of sheep and goats coming home guarded by boys and black robed brown tanned Arab girls.
My talks on board of this ship which caries a decidedly wealthier class of British tourists, convinces me that [[red underline]] the average Britisher is even less informed than the average traveling American [[/red underline]] We meet in the U.S. the
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[[in red]] Dendera - Osiris - Isis [[/in red]]
more informed and more intelligent class of Britishers here are apt to overestimate their [[red underline]] mentality [[/red underline]] as a nation.
Feb. 19. Up early early breakfast then on [[strikethrough]] mules [[/strikethrough]] ^[[donkeys]] to the temple of Dendera. See Baedeker) Osiris. Isis Greeks - Romans etc. Very impressive as a building as [[red underline]] a feat of architecture. Same Priest-hood humbug to enslave the people - Secrecy of rites [[/red underline]] etc etc. Signs of the Zodiac Early Christians who overran Egypt and made the Nile populations [[red underline]] "Christian". Damaged considerably some of the principal relief figures specially [[red underline]] Osiris and Cleopatra [[/red underline]] I notice several scratches in the lower outside walls The dragoman tells