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to :^ypt and %yptians. Will know better after Luxor, and Cairo, ait 
I shall never the slaple comfort and easy restfulness, though shore- 
and shoal-bumped and noisy landing places of the Juba-Kosti stretch. 
It was a real vacation in a foreign land, and except, that you might 
have been pressed for time, a trip you would have enjoyed as much as 
I did. Because of tne heat and the dust, the trip fBom Kosti to 
Khartoum, and iDiartoum to Luxor might be better by air at this time of 
^ar, siK>rt cutting or rather avoiding the heat we‘ve been experiencing. 
I'll be better able to tell you if the ^u Simbil temple visit was 
worth this particular boat "ride." On it one does see the more typical 
or rather better known HUe sceneiy , but perhaps that too obtains just 
as well at Luxor. Shall let yo^now. We are being warned that Luxor 
will be the Ixittest place yet (this time of year). I’m keeping By- 
fingers crossed, and giving out a prayer for the film, w® hope yet to 
expose at Luxor and the pyramids. Ihe Sextons say this heat we’ve been 
passing through could fog (to some extent at least) our film, as much 
as light leakage. Th®re is no way of now checking )(/ by developnent 
any of the film now being ea^osed. If a little by copying (or duplicating) 
back in the States. So far as possible, and if the film lasts, they 
are going to take the worth while things both ways, -normal and under, 
so as to Insure our getting something out of the Nile trip in the way 
of color pictuMS. We are as crowded aboard here, as on -toe upper Nile. 
Besides ourselves 3 ^ericans, there are three ^glishmen who with us 
got on at Juba. Hr. Warner, the piano playsr, "concert artist" 
returning hone to Eiigland after visiting a married daughter in Kenya 
(as I did also, he lost his only son in the late war)i a young architect, 
and a young auditor, both going back to England on an earned vacation. 
