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and lovely, (as always, when I see or talk about anything beautiful
and lovely, I immediately think of you , my darling). They
are just like the hills I told you about when I first
arrived in Egypt. The shapes and outlines are so sharp and
sheer and suddenly irregular, then when the sun is shining, and
particularly when it is low, in the morning and hte eveing
parts are bathed in brilliant sunshine, and other parts are black
and dull. At night, it is even stranger and there is a full moon
just now - the sky is clear with a few clouds floating
about. Againth ehills are an eerie [cong.....] of light and
shade. It is possible to stand down here, in darknees, because
the moon is behind a cloud. And look back at the hills,
and the near range is in darkness - the range behind is
completely light, just as in daylifht. The range behind
agin is dark. it is weird, very striking and beautiful.
I suppose the moon is brighter in this part of the world -
but the main reasin for seeing these things here and not at home,
must be that the rocky, sany surface reflects moonlight
so much more brilliantly than our grassy green hills and
mountaings.
On Sunday, I went down to the Dead Sea - which is the
lowest spot on this globe and had a very pleasant [time]. This
came about in the way. in Palestine, there is an organisation
caleld the Jewish Agnecy. It is a semi political body, and to a
very large extent, supplies the recruits for the Jewish Palestinian
Companies. Having done this, it has a Welfare secton, which
looks after these troops and takes an interest in them. They
have given out men several lovely concerts, and now that we
have gone out into the world as an independent unit, they