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February 14th

Calmer this morning, we took up the sports postponed from
yesterday. Miss Adams of Cleveland and I led off in the
Bottle Race, and Mrs. Abegg and I were in the Threading the
Needle, in which I come out second in the whole group by
good running.

A delightful bunch of young ladies and little
children aboard.

The sports are interesting me so much that I can
easily believe that I should have become absorbed in them if
I had gone to college.

February 15th

The last day of the sports and though I won no prizes, I came
off with honour--among those of the foremost rank in practi-
cally everything I entered. Miss Barbara Sutton of San Fran-
cisco was my partner in the Knotting the Tie race.

At daybreak we entered the Suez Canal, and the whole
way has been through a desert that is Sahara enough fo me.
Last night passed that was pointed out as Mt. Sinai by an ex-
perienced traveler.

February 16th

Reached Port Said, Egypt, early in the morning and went ashore,
regretfully parting with a number of my best friends--Maj.
and Mrs. T. L. Ames of Rock Island and little Adelaide, Miss
Sutton and her parents, the Lamprechts, and the Browns.

Found Port Said much like a European city. The statue
of De Lesseps at the head of the Canal, with the waves break-
ing at its base and the spray leaving half the pedestal, I