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… the next morning I paid about .45 to get them from the custom house on to the SS Fouaddieh. I was travelling deck, as I suppose you would know to count on more relatively. I stayed over night at the Hotel de France, recommended by a fellow decker. Room with good clean bed (and also was room branches) 15 piastres, hot bath 10 p., breakfast 5 p. It is very central, on the Place Saad Zaghoul, near the central square of the city, the Place Mohammed Ali. I did notice a few cockroaches in dark corners. I suppose it is not a place for you or for Dorothy Hannah.
The director of the Graeco-Roman museum, Pr. Adriani, is absent in Italy, but the government representative, who was taking his place, a Mr. Banoub, was very kind. As the museum is closed Monday afternoons, he took me out to
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just missed the first of this series myself. I presume you will come this way, you will be saved a lot of nuisance and expense with your baggage. The waterfront at Alexandria is inhabited almost entirely by bandits, and there is no ordered transportation such as is arranged here to get you [strike]disembarked[/strike] embarked. I believe it was not really necessary for me to go through the custom house at all, since the other boat was in port when I arrived. If you should come by two boats, try to evade this. The Khedivial pier is quite a distance from the custom house, ten or fifteen minutes walk. My four pieces of hand luggage went to the custom house, near where we landed, at a cost of about $1.00 paid to various villains supposedly to hasten matters (there was a great deal of business that morning). The custom house [margin left: 2 hours or more to get through] charged P.80 (16 piastres) entrance, and P.80 exit, and P0.20 to keep them over night,
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