292 



SAVAGE SUDAN 



came to draw water ; but a young girl in their company, 

 whose costume was limited to a bunch of green leaves 

 hanging from her girdle, resented being "snapped," and 

 with silent dignity stepped aside into the bush. It was 

 a pretty trait, and personally I felt hurt when the girl's 

 elder comrades insisted, in deference to the white man, 



CRESTED HAWK-EAGLE. Shot at Rejaf, March 7th, 1919. 



on her returning to pose. Her inherent objection to the 

 camera in a land where nakedness implies no shame, 

 seemed to signify some instinctive sense of delicacy, 

 latent though such may be in the conditions of to-day. 



[Before finally turning northwards, it is desirable to record 

 the few following species of birds characteristic of this our 

 southernmost stretch of Nile. These include, the yellow- 

 wattled lapwing (Lobivanellus senegallus\ Nile plovers and 



