May 29, cont. aboard Nile atr. 
othw? I»ll probably know more in a few daya, if of interest. That's 
the idiite population aboard besides your party. The jroc®! and mess 
attendants are Moslems, probably all Aral^, but I can also believe one 
or two are Hindus (or rather East IndiansV cooks, and 
"below-decfei*’ gang are black, the sooty black of the Sudanese natives 
of these parts, but the Sudanese oitiaens of today are from all over 
the world. Greek from Crete runs one of the leading groceiy and 
general supply stores in town (Juba)— and so on. 
!iow to get moving down the river? our stem wheeler, two wheels)^, 
one either side at extreme rear end but not extending out beyond the 
sides of the steamer for very good reasons, connected with our mode of 
travel. The Mile up here though cut into numerous channels 
runs with considerable speed if not force and carries this vessel along 
so well that what we have for twin rudders camot make the often sharp 
turns in the channel or about the mai^ scattered islands. Thus we just 
swing and drift on these occasions up against the bank, this side 
or the other, with a good bang. Sometime, the churning paddles get us 
out and off the soft mud without much difficulty* At others you begin 
to think maybe we shall be a week here.— -Then th^e are occasional 
shallows on idiich we ground and struggle over. Our progression is a 
series of bumps and grinds, most uneagjected and consequently a bit 
startling at times, especially in dead of ni^t,— but we are getting 
used to them; they are not so bad or so mary as it sounds. There are 
many nice long straight-aways over which we do make good time, but 
never-the-lesa we do carirom first off one side and then off the other 
more times than you'd care to count. At some places our (diannel is all 
of a hundred "^44^ yards wide, at a few even narrower, and at many others 
