Well Al it come like a supprise a bout us going to land today and we wasent figureing on geting off of the Ship bord till tommorow when we got to port Sad but the capt of the boat says insted of that we would get off of the boat today only they call it disunbark in africa and the place where wear going to land at is Sue S. and that sounds like as if it was a girls name only of coarse its a town and I would of wrote you a long letter only I thot we was going to be on the Ship bord an other day yet so this is just a note.

Yours in Haze. Jack .

Cairo. Africa. Feb. 1.