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P.S. I cabled you this morning "Sampan and promising"; arrived here safely and found everything satisfactory and promising. 
[[pre-printed]] Shepheard's Hotel & Ghezireh Palace Cairo THE EGYPTIAN HOTELS LTd. TelegrAdress SHEPHEARD'S-CAIRO
LIBBER'S CODE USED
[[insignia]] QUIS AQUAM NILI BIBIT AERUM BIBET
Shepheard's Hotel [[/pre-printed]] May 16th [[pre-printed]] 190 [[/pre-printed]] 8
My dear Colonel,
I arrived here day before yesterday having enjoyed a delightful voyage from Naples unexpectedly on an Orient Line steamer called the "Orient". My former dragoman met me at Port Said and has in advance started the work for which I particularly came - the promised watches were a happy thought, and in delivering them personally, I received in return, unlooked for
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