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80 lation compel our steamer to add an [[underline]] additional rudder [[/underline]] so as to insure prompt control at low speed. Maximum speed in canal is [[underline]] 6 miles [[/underline]] The steamer has also to be provided with strong head-lights. Left at 4 P.M. [[underline]] Canal is narrow, [[/underline]] bank well kept. On both sides: desert. Administration building Cheerful ^[[Cheerful]] looking, a [[underline]] café near by where people sip [[/underline]] their drinks under the shade of [[underline]] Date Palms. [[/underline]] See many [[underline]] large oil tanks [[/underline]] painted white. Brick houses Administration buildings etc make a group or compound by themselves. The shore on S.B. is part of the [[underline]] endless barren desert. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] On Port Side [[/strikethrough]] and all long one sees [[end page]] [[start page]] 81 remnants of [[underline]] war trenches and barbed wire [[/underline]] which has not been removed. Now and then a [[underline]] camel [[/underline]] or a group of [[underline]] camels. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] On Sta [[/strikethrough]] On Portside, place seems to be irrigated in patches one sees clusters of [[underline]] Date-Palms [[/underline]] and some habitations surrounded by green. One or two Arab guards in uniform and repeating [[strikethrough]] lit [[/strikethrough]] rifle, patrolling the canal. Canal very straight then winds into an expansion called the [[underline]] Bitter Lakes. [[/underline]] Now and then a cheerful looking signal station. We loose much time and come to a standstill and tie up to the bank to let a smaller steamer pass in the night. The [[underline]] Canal is more interesting than I imagined but cannot [[/underline]]