Alexandria. Big city, the Place des Consuls [now Tharir Square] - bastard of a city, half-Arab, half-European.

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Sand - the village looks less poor than the last one.

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Easter Sunday. Arrived yesterday evening in front of the old town of Ibrim on the right bank of the Nile

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Monday. We leave Wadi Halfa at about noon - the boat has its mast felt.

CAIRO, Boat, Beer

I noticed last night's felucca boat had a bottle opener on a chain. Probably for all the foreigners who bring beer on board and forget one.

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Tuesday. Traveled about 7 miles. In the afternoon, boarded two cangias of slaves merchants going down to Cairo - bought belts and amulets.

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Passing the First Cataract.

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Wednesday. We arrive in Esna.(...)House of Kuchiuk-Hanem.

At 2 o’clock. We are about to pass Thebes.

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In the middle of the day we see several crocodiles at the tip of an islet.

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Friday March, 1st. At 11:10 a.m. I saw my first crocodile.

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Monday. Asyut. Lycopolis is a good one-quarter mile from the Nile.

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Friday. Boarding in the evening at Souadeh - moon - palm trees (on the right bank, to our left).

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Monday. Rest. We meet the boat of Mr Robert and the Pole who lived in Neufchâtel.

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At 5 a.m. I wake Joseph up, who leaps up: “Si signore”;

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We leave for Medinet el-Fayoum on horrendous donkeys, provided with even more horrendous saddles.

Monday. The weather gets nicer. Pyramid of Sahure to the right, which I see in the morning.

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Saturday, same anchorage.

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Friday. Pulled with a rope in the morning for four hours;

On the Nile.

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Dinner at Soliman Pasha’s with Mr Machereau, former arts teacher at the Gizah school (closed).

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Monday the 28th. Introduction to Mr Le Moyne, General Consul in Cairo

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Ceremony of the “Dauseh” = trampling

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In Boulac. Nile - cangia [a boat] - sun - vast and quiet yearning.

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Thursday. Entrance of the caravan from Mecca - entrance of the carpet

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Wednesday.

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Entrance into Cairo of the princess, mother-in-law to Abbas Pasha, coming back from a pilgrimage in Mecca.

Sunday. We spend the entire afternoon shooting birds of prey along the Aqueduct of Pharaoh

Sunday. Visited the Coptic Church in Old Cairo.

Saturday. (...) In the evening, old man who comes to us with his long sickle, which he holds by the middle.

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Friday. Unsuccessful attempts about the commercial information.

Bazaar of the perfumers.

Visit to the mosques with La Tour and Sir Malézieux

Christmas

Tuesday. Christmas day

Monday, we spent the day at the Mokattam, seeing nothing.

Saturday, visit to the tomb of Ibrahim Pasha in the plain between the Mokattam and the Nile

Since monday 17th, it’s been raining.

Coming back from lunch I heard the sour cry of X, who was dying.

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Cairo. Mosque of Hassan.