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Letter about time in Egypt. Describes location of camp and surrounds.
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One-sided handwritten letter
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SReidK473650v10005
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[crest of YMCA New Zealand]
ON ACTIVE SERVICE
[underlined] 2. [/underlined]
of the Egyptian Empire of Bibical [sic] days much more clearly than my pen can illustrate.
After being here for nearly three months I still find it hard to determine where Ancient Egypt ends and where the modern begins, for this land is a strange mixture of old and new, startling contrasts and confusing customs and ideas.
From the door of my tent I gaze westwards and see more tents, and beyond them sharply rising ground of barren sandstone rocky ground, which converges into a high ridge of sandstone formation extenting [sic] away on the horizon into the desert.
To the south there is a simalar [sic] barreness. [sic] In the distance away to the North East are the hazy outlines of domes & minerets [sic] indicating the outskirts of the worlds oldest existing city of old Cairo
In the North a matter of five or six mls away, is the outstanding land [deleted] ing [/deleted] mark of the towers of the Citadel, “the city within a city” whose walls built in 1160 have withstood countless assaults even defying the might of Napoleon Bonaparte untill [sic] he had to make
[missing pages]
[crest of YMCA New Zealand]
ON ACTIVE SERVICE
[underlined] 2. [/underlined]
of the Egyptian Empire of Bibical [sic] days much more clearly than my pen can illustrate.
After being here for nearly three months I still find it hard to determine where Ancient Egypt ends and where the modern begins, for this land is a strange mixture of old and new, startling contrasts and confusing customs and ideas.
From the door of my tent I gaze westwards and see more tents, and beyond them sharply rising ground of barren sandstone rocky ground, which converges into a high ridge of sandstone formation extenting [sic] away on the horizon into the desert.
To the south there is a simalar [sic] barreness. [sic] In the distance away to the North East are the hazy outlines of domes & minerets [sic] indicating the outskirts of the worlds oldest existing city of old Cairo
In the North a matter of five or six mls away, is the outstanding land [deleted] ing [/deleted] mark of the towers of the Citadel, “the city within a city” whose walls built in 1160 have withstood countless assaults even defying the might of Napoleon Bonaparte untill [sic] he had to make
[missing pages]
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“Partial letter,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 28, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/39718.
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