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PLACES VISITED

Date
Place Suez Canal

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passed bouys with red or green lights. The lake must be very shallow with just a deep channel cut through, because we could see sand bars and waves breaking near the ship. In the distance the lights of the mainland were just visible strung round like a necklace. Then we neared the further shore and entered another leg of the canal to the accompainement of whistles and shours of a camp of soldiers on [shore] the bank.

Next morning, instead of banks, on either side were the towering, jaggered red and ochre cliffs at the entrance to the Red Sea.