bead“half price of cattle and so show financial standing of 
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size than those we saw in the Congo parks, is it a fact or Just an illusion? 
I'll have to check published records. But these Kile dwellers do have 
a greater abundance of lush food and therefore the opportunity of growing 
faster and to maxlBium size. Still later in the day twward three o'clock 
May 30 there were three or four alraost down to the water's edge as we 
steamed by scarcely more than a stone' s throw away. There are a 
number of white herons along the bank and an occasional larger individual. 
Several large hippos, and crocodiles have been seen but not photographed. 
In most remote and isolated stretches there will be one or more native 
huts, and several swarthy natives. Ifot all come out of their thatch 
houses if in them, to acknowledge the passing steamer, but several times 
where there were more houses (and people) the little community of 
several dozen, or rather a dozen or two turned out. Only the women wore 
a sack-like brown garment from shoulder straps to knees j the men and 
youngsters were "ccwiplete" in birthday clothes, with only a string of 
beads around the waist by way of adornment. Of course we've made a 
number of stops, for native passenger and local cargo, one last evening 
anoth^ this morning between h and 5 a.m. This last a place called Bor 
is an important anuy camp, with stone dockside walls and many clothed 
natives but with an unabashed sprinkling of the iindressed men from the 
remoter parts of the river, I have yet to see an the Sudanese 
wcraan. On striking feature of those bead-string wearing 
men is their extraordinarily long legs. — Never have seen the like, must 
check this with our anthropologist at Museum. The mendo not strike us 
(at least me, as immodest). Kiey Just fit naturally into the scenery, 
and surroundings in even the larger settlanents, and you, the other 
inhabitants and the people concerned themsleves, think nothing of it— • 
and that's true. 
