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PLACES VISITED

Date
Place Suez Canal

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looked like a minor sandstorm obscured the horizon. This lasted for quite a while, but when we left the cutting the sky had cleared and the sun was setting over the dunes. As there were no houses or, consequently, people, each [boat] ship carried its own little native craft and 2 or 3 boatmen which was lowered over the side to moor, and cast-off, the ships in the cutting. We watched the tanker behind us as the little rowing boat, with the natives still in it, was winched up from the Canal. Bollards were placed every few yards along the canal, and when we regained the main channel we passed several spots where the prevailing