They constitute one of the largest
barracks in the world & are built
of stone with nice verandahs
around them & three stories high
& cover acres & acres of ground.
We then came on the Egyptian
Army isd quarters, which & their
we saw the black recruits being
drilled. The Egyptian Army is drawn
largely from the Soudanese I
believe & they are very well trained &
after serving for several years in
the Army they are used as policemen
so that the Cairo police are a fine
body of men & they are beautifully
dressed. In the summer they are
clothed in white with the usual
red tarboosh on the head, & then
uniforms are always clean & neat.
In the winter they wear a kind of
dark seige unform which looks
very well especially as the buttons &
trappings are always highly polished
We watched for some time on Saturday
the mounted recruits being trained
in horsemanship, vaulting on to their
horses without sturrups, then sitting
on their horses without stirrups & with
their arms folded behind their backs
& the horses trotting round a circle
led by one man acting as guide
who had his rein & stirrups. Then
they performed various arm exercises
with their horses proceding at
a trot. After this we rode on
further and chanced to pass a
place which was being decorated
for Mahomet’s birthday which was
on the monow. Numerous large
marquiez had been erected
40
around a square in which some
kind of herformance was t to
take place & the morguees
were beautifully fitte dup with
carpets & chans awarged
along the walls - most of them
being fine plush cnsproved chan
& hundred of tamps gait
decorated were hanging from
the roops. The natives were hard
at work decorating for the next
day. After this we at last came
to the Tomls of the Khahpon
City of the Dead where there
were numbers of comparativety, larde
buildings stretching along both
sides of the road for some mile
or two which excrosed the remain
of th old. Khahp. They are in you
good repair & a in most cases
constitute mosgues as does almost
evsery building which sunounds the
dead afcourse they are not used
now. A great deal of excavation
has been done
There & givesome
t presented themselves
remains frequen
in one pite there were dozens o
steulls. We had quite a pleasant
afternoon & returned with a good appetite
today I received a parct from Enthe
La p. Sydney Mait also, the former
onranin some edibles which I
would have simpt gloued in, if
had received them at Gallipoh
where every man who received a
paret was the envy of the rest
though they were always shared
I must write I thank now for
body. I went so
the
themI
the natuve bay aar the otherday
to get some thing which I
have lon a intended to send
I had quite an enjoycable
atternoon bardainig I
on I got
think I toldy
some scent, then I indulged
in some passware - one sival
vase & a smaller pair, then
a blouse length & a silk
shanl. Please take your
& then sond one of the
pick
other wree
others to the your different
amilis.
got something o
the women tolk only asI
think they like things betheithan
the men. I thought probably some
of the hass workk would suit you
rest + I thought the smaller pan
& then the blouse length would
gladden Mat heart & protat
findawould agre with the hand
& Hlice the single vase. But
you please yourself
ho he
they anive safety they are
registered post
being sent by
the hassoworkis bein sent by the
deaters I am send the selk.
tomorrow. Hope you will
them, they will be delayed
like
but in
by customs profal.
Ptelieve but
are exempted
they don't
don't to alamed if
for a wik o two after
arrive-
oveto
Mch
the letter
Sow m
all
four lovg so
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I hope you onwill & no
t
iing we dear
the
H. Kegd.
Hehopons
256.6.
My dear mother
It is only a few
days since I wrote my last
letter to you but I must tryt
keep up the sequence. No more mail
has anwed since then, except local
letters but we are getting maile
beautifully here as we now avoid
Senmos & the Hingac beach which
I think must have accounted for
many letters & parcels. I think I had
been to dinner with Twen Evan when
Iwrote you last, I went to see
her off the next night &
forget if I told you that I
met there, a man named
Dr Jones who went to school
with the Hughisboys & was in
the same tenms club as starly
Emest sEitten Hughes. He also
knew the place where father
grandfather lived & was
quite interesting to talk to
He has recently obtained a
commission in an English
regiment, has been out
here for over twelve months
but only obtained his commusion
a monthago. sinc then
have led a very quietlife
for the very obvious reason
that until the next pay day
which is today, money was
rather scarce in the native
language (mafish leluce
for the whole
I have wid
week on about 5/ which is
a mentorious performance in
Egypt where a step outside
the door means money
have little news
So that
ime have
tell you this
to
paid senual visits to
hospital where several fellows
I know are ill D. Stephen
is in bed, first had a bad
den one
cold, then it settle
eye which has been very
bad indeed poor old cha
but he is on the mend now
We had a very ma ride
some days ago through
Matorima where the
well is where many is
reputed to have useed with
Joseph on her way to
I think I dimted
gupt
& you once before
it.
We rode through the
village on the nam road +
through
then turned
the vougated Gulds. These
are still very beautiful
& now have young
barny
crops of wheat
atches
with
growing
of broad beans, & whole
fields of bersene which
tean clover
is Eaw
forms
resemoles linceme
