"Boulac" Size:extra small A Senior Sister is seen

A Senior Sister is seen checking medical equipment in the medical ward on board CANBERRA (1961)

from the deck of the outward bound steamer

for land and sea can ne'er divide

This print is possibly a restrike after the original plate by Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton

The building depicted is a ruined mausoleum which was used as a guard house to protect the well close by

"Boulac" Size:extra small A Senior Sister is seenBoulac (or Bulaq) was Cairo's port on the Nile. P&O steamers would arrive here late at night and passengers and baggage would be met by camels, donkeys and 'omnibuses' provided by the Company, for the remaining journey into Cairo.