[Adventures and Letters by Richard Harding Davis]@TWC D-Link bookAdventures and Letters CHAPTER VI 36/79
I was on shore about five hours and saw some interesting things and with that and Brindisi and the voyage I can make a third letter but Tunis is writ on my heart like Calais. Today Cleveland is inaugurated and I took all the passengers down at the proper time and explained to them that at that moment a great man was being made president and gave them each an American cocktail to remember it by and in which to toast him I am getting to be a great speech maker and if there are any more anniversaries in America I shall be a second Depew. It is late but it is still the season here and it will be gay, but what I want to do now is to go off on a little trip inland although Cairo is the worst of all for it is surrounded by deserts and nothing to shoot but antelope and foxes and those I SCORN.
I want Zulus and lions.
I shall be greatly disappointed if I do not have something to do outside of Cairo for I have had no adventures at all.
It is just as civilized as Camden only more exciting and beautiful although Camden is exciting when you have to get there and back in time for the last edition.
From what I have already seen I am ready to spend a month in Cairo and then confess to knowing nothing of it.
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