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June 10/55 10 a. in. 
Dear Bruce and M^s. Bredin: 
we are, drifting I want to say }— steaming down the Nile of 
song and stoiy,— the Nile of Biblical times, so little does it sem to , 
have changed '^csn the times tiaEass— (■in Bible) *ttEBne depicted and recited. 
as 
was then. 
The mode of life, the style of house, the beasts pILbpden and to a 
a^voL 
great ®ctent the food is seems to be the sam^ 
perhaps alsothe poverty qf the masses,— except there may have been a , 
iT''^osa 0^^ QhcX. Ayci'i/, 
fewer mouths to feed, (I wonder? )f but certainly a bb'CtW distribution ^ 
C*.£lfe«iW . 
of food. For their great undertakings the nalers of Egypt of, yester 
of MTyKafS * 
year had to have reasonably well fed workers ^slave 
^slave^. ^ 
X shall have 
to ask our physical anthropologist if malinutrition so far as tlicre is 
evidence in old skeletons was as common and as wide spread in Africa 
as it is today, I Last nightie stopped at the Temple of Abu Simbil,- 
^ ^ ’ 
at febout 7 otclocl^-was -pitch dark outside- but the steamer and its 
two barges, one on either side, pushed rx^t up on shore. — Tlie temple is 
wired for light, but without power plant, so the steamer ran a line ashore 
to connect with a s;4tch box so that m could see the place. It is a 
series of rather tremendous roems excavated into a red sand stone hill 
(or small mountain, running down,Ao mearly/iiigh water mark on shore^) 
first chamber roof was supported by huge square columns, on the front 
of each of which was carved a gigantic, standing figure, of which the 
foot alone was 2-1/2 -3 or more feet long^I would gues auSihe figure 
/ he Afl 
J^me flash 
with head dres 
light photos, 
figures were 
be >^^30 feet-: 
large 
tither of the entrance,^^9| 
5^ 
"strob,” flashlight to properly illimiinati 
*Pw— l- w nlr -pf. i4a.- B mch- Ilka, 
JUa.vIs*\QSS . 
