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Typescript of a 1926 cruise to Asia, Egypt, and Europe. A spirited narrative, containing descriptive firsthand descriptions of popular tourist destinations, in particular Cairo and Ceylon, and onboard ship.The writer, who is unidentified but a resident of Berkeley, California, travelled with at least one other person, and this account concerns the last few months of a two-and-a-half-year period away from home. It begins with her departure from Manila onboard MS Fulda, a North German Lloyd Line vessel launched in 1924. She reaches Singapore on 30 August ("Some of the men wear 'Mary Pickford' curls") and then visits Ceylon, where she writes about the tea industry. The vessel steams west to Egypt, where they travel by car to Cairo ("a woman just passed with a portable sewing machine balanced on her head"). The trip concludes in Europe and with the voyage back to the the US.

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