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[[annotation in top margin in red]] Cairo - return [[strikethrough Al [[/strikethrough]] [[/top margin]]
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more. Resolved to sail for [[rd underline]] Genoa [[/red underline]] Hurried change of money, tickets etc. managed to catch 12M. train for Alexandria: Well cultivated [[red underline]] green fields of Delta of [[/red underline]] the Nile. Ramshackle villages. See clouds again arrive 3:30 P.M [[red underline]] Alexandria Savoy Hotel. [[/red underline]] - best but not much. 60 [[red underline]] Piastres for a bare room [[/red underline]] ^[[without bath]] looks rather dirty altho' bed linen seems clean. [[Loitered?]] around streets. [[red underline]] More modern than Cairo. [[/red underline]] more cosmopolitan Many new buildings and many stores in new streets. Bazaars and native quarter [[red underline]] less interesting than Cairo but just as dirty. French seems to have more hold here. [[/red underline]]
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[[annotation in top margin in red]] Alexandria [[/top margin]]
Inscriptions in French. names of streets French and Arabic More Europeans than in Cairo. [[red underline]] Greek and Italians [[/red underline]] seem to [[red underline]] predominate. [[/red underline]] Large number of [[red underline]] Jews. [[/red underline]]
March 15. Went to Italian Consul to have my passport visaed. Pretentious building with shabby officials inside. and considerable delay to get signature of the [[red underline]] lordly Consul. [[/red underline]] Charge 280 Piastres or $14.00 The Italians are not slow to realize that if U.S. charges $100.00 for visa of Passport to Italians they may make it even higher for Americans. Bought [[red underline]] [[cracked/crackled?]] amber [[red underline]] cigarette holder [[strikethrough]] $14 [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] $1.50 [[/red underline]] Exchange 20 Lire to the Dollar [[strikethrough]] 22 [[/strikethrough]] 21 Lire for gold.
Drove to SS. Aspiera ^[[ [[red underline]] Esperia [[/red underline]] ]] which