6Ao/5? 
(3ol. “Chinese” Gordon was killed in the Mahdi revolt against th^gliah 
*■«!•« c-f t-he Sudan in 1898. It is a thoroughly Arabic, Moslem, 
Sudanese, place, -buildings, people, products, and atmosphere including 
dust and dirt and what not. One could well have spent several days, 
drowsing if not iifiM. buying , in tiie native m s hops , — probably 
rougher (less polished) and lower priced than the Cairo bazars. % 
buying days are over because I still am packing along some specimens by 
hand, and with flying have to keep the weight of mjr baggage dowj:) to the 
allowed weight lixiiits. Sexton did buy a few more ivory objects. 'There 
were a lot of gold ornaments for sale, but how pure gold I would not 
want to say. (In Trinidad I once bought a few "silver” bracelet.s which 
proved to be pretty base metal after I got them home. Ho lU kt. 
guarantee as at hcsiiej and I “bewared" enough hei^ not to become a buyer. 
les, Khartoum was hot too, but in the hotel one kept reasonably 
cool, high, ceiled roexas, thick walls, and ceiling fans. On trains and 
boats, Juba, and Khartoum hotels, food was good, well prepared and 
nicely served. These hotels and media of transportation are run by 
the Sudani Hailways and they are doing a bang up Job. We liave bad no 
complaints I exccLot that from 1-feidi Haifa to Shellal, where we aac 
due Sat., the 11th of Jurie, tlie service is not so good; no food 
complaint, Just that the help is little less helpful. Had to&sk for 
soap, bath towel, second face towel (2 people in a roan), to Ijave Thermos 
filled with cold water, more manaaiade on breakfast table—a number of 
little attentions that were attended to on the boat Irora Juba to Kosti, 
which here on this boat have to be specially and pointedly requested. 
The nearer you get to civil iaation the more tsup^^ ” your waiters 
and ream boys get. (?) or so it seems to be developing as we get along 
