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42_76 Alexandria, Egypt on his head. The loaves are stacked on the edge of it, the circular loaves held by a little post - and this structure balances on his head, even spins slowly at times, while his hands hang by his side! The street scenes absorb me all the time I am here. The shop signs are chiefly French when not Arabic. The names of hotels and shops are likely to be English - but one never finds an English proprietor; it is a name for business reasons! We go to Cairo. It is a wonderful picture of intensive farming - this nile delta - with the life of the people everywhere before our eyes. THere is no privacy to speak |
42_77 Jan. 31, 1926 of - none at all in the countryside. There are no trees, no barriers, no [?] fences or walls. The land is divided or checked into little plots 60x20 feet, varying up to areas of 1, 5, 15 or 20 acres. Plowing is done with a forked tree to which are attached a yoke of buffaloes. Asses are used as burden bearers and for very large loads camels. Two-wheeled carts with large wheels and narrow body-boxes are everywhere in evidence and also small 4-whelled wagons with similar narrow bodies. Huge sacks of cotton are taken into the market place on a camel, one on each side. When the donkey or ass has delivered its load the owner sits on the forward part of the saddle and panniers, or if the donkey be naked, far back on the loins. Everywhere were green fields |
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