Transcribe Journal of a trip from the East Coast of Africa to the Cape, 1884

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I have visited Egypt to collect species [specimens?]. Many fossils in the newer rocks, mineralites, old-fashioned fishes and crocodiles in Nile. Camels in market. Crocodile mummy-pits.
We move onto Suez. Crossing of children of Israel. Rock when Miriam sang. Sinai Peninsula. Convent. By [chil Nakous?]. Jeddah. Consul Wylde. Mohamodan Comodore [Mohammedan Commodore]. Mohammadan love of their religion. Repugnance toward Christians. Treatment of me in market place. Berber pilgrims. Threw overboard my Baboons. Arabia Felix on left. Date country. ([illegible] dates). Coffee Country. Mocha. Big dam. Abyssinia. Tropic Switzerland. Christians. No sea ports. Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb. Aden. [illegible] in [illegible] 27.23. In volcano. Gulf of Aden with shores laden with Dates from Persia.