Kay 29* cont. aboard Nile str. 
I*Bi sure you folks would have liked this Nile trip. It's much 
like an ocean trip for restfulneas, but there's not the rocai to move 
about as on a larger ship yet you can rest and read and look about and 
rest again,— the opportunities for getting ashore to do minor 
collecting are not what I thought from past accounts of other travellers 
Miere these boats formerly stopped to take on wood for fuel,— th^ are 
steamezns,— today the boilers are all diesel- fired and stops at little 
towns or villages are scarcely ten minute or less affairs, — dropping or 
taking on a few things or people and moving on, Cki either side of the 
Nile channel that we are traveling the papyrus plants must be standing 
8 to 10 feet high above the water level so that you see no more 6han 
green walla with sky above, the muddy water and thesteamer and barges 
between. So far we've seen not too much native, or wild animal life, 
even though it's still dry season. In the wet, now over due, the 
animals which normally (in dry season) hug the river banks, scatter 
far over the land? and we've been lucky with our weather, --still no 
rain-made difficulties. Each day I expect to see the rains start, but 
the time is not yet. 
