Wiki source code of Mountains of the Moon - June 19th

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 1: {style:type=span|color=#330099}*June 19th (Saturday)* Trip down the Nile in luxury river boat (soon to be assigned as a hospital ship on the Tigris!){style} 
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 3: ~~__On the Western Front__ the French gain ground near Souchez and French bombard Munster (Alsace). __On the Eastern Front__ Austro-Germans attack the Grodek line (Galicia) and the Russians retreat. __In the news__ Conference at Boulogne between Mr. Lloyd George and M. Albert Thomas, French Under Secretary for War.~~ 
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 5: As originally planned, the party complete their preparations and set off upriver in search of Egypt's antiquities. Travelling with them is the American archeologist, Harriet. 
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 7: Back in Cairo, the AK cult was in trouble many arrests. With rumours of Al Kubrah's death, a source admitted to Sinclair that AK had a burn on his arm. Sinclair spoke to the pathologist who confirms that the body has no 'weave' burns up its arm. 
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 9: ~~Pathologist was based on [Sir Sydney Alfred Smith|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Smith_(forensic_expert)] who actually arrived in Cairo in 1917 - see his memoir of the period 'Mostly Murder'~~ 
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11: Abhorsen's Bell in mosque rung... Alerting cultists to poss link with Delacourt 
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13: Left Cairo to go up river