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north station of Khartoum, Mrs. Rooseveh and her daughter arriv- 

 ing there about half-past 5 o'clock in the evening. 



A launch carrying the representatives of the governor general 

 of Anglo-Egyptian Soudan, Major-General Sir Francis Reginald 

 Wingate, sirdar of the Egyptian army, met the steamer Dal up the 

 river. On this small craft Colonel Roosevelt and the members of 

 his party had voyaged for more than 1300 miles from Gondokoro 

 in Uganda, where they embarked on February 28. 



It was a wearisome trip, for there was little to be seen, and the 

 latter part of the voyage was exceedingly uninteresting, the river 

 sometimes being a mile and a half wide, with mud flats on either 

 side, where only crocodiles abounded, and toward the end Colonel 

 Roosevelt displayed considerable anxiety to be ashore. 



OFFICIAL GREETING AT KHARTOUM. 



The White Nile was more placid than the preceding day, when 

 a heavy northwest gale stirred up the water and threatened delay 

 to the anxiously awaited steamer, and the sirdar's launch was able 

 to proceed a long distance up the river, bearing the first official 

 greeting to Khartoum's distinguished guest. 



The sirdar's stafif officers were taken aboard, and when the 

 steamer, with the American, British and Egyptian flags flying, 

 arrived at Gordon's Tree, they were seen surrounding the former 

 President on the bridge. Colonel Roosevelt was attired in khaki 



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and wore a white helmet. 



For several hours the Dal tied up opposite Gordon's Tree, 

 within sight of Khartoum, and during that time Colonel Roosevelt 

 occupied himself in answering hundreds of cablegrams and letters, 

 which had accumulated there. 



All observers remarked his fitness and energy, and among 

 them were those who had noted in Colonel Roosevelt when he left 

 New York a year before the effects of the strain of a long and 

 strenuous term in office. From these effects he has now completely 

 recovered, and, although apparently the hardships which he under- 

 went in the wilds of Africa had not reduced his flesh to any'appre- 



