May 29, cont. aboard Bile atr. 
June 1, 195$ 
yesterday’s stops included Shambe at 1 p.m, , and that night Adok 
11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Junel. Here also the crowds include all the types 
we’ve seen right along, the long legged, swarthy-black, very skinny 
»Neur'' people, and the Arabs who are everywhere, Hie Beur men vbslt a 
chain or girdle of beads around their middle, and maybe also a 
necMLace (bright red, green, yellow, white, blue there must have been 
I don’t recall it), and stiver earrings through the upper part of tlie 
ear, not the lobe as with the women. fj The Arabs all wear 
long white (occasionally blue cotton robed* and either 
a skull cap alone or under a turban. To make a landing 
the steamer thrusts one or another of the barges it’s pushing down 
stream at an angle onto the beach (shore) a crede gangway of two planks 
held together by cleats is put over, and then the swarming back arid 
forth starts, like a hurrying stream of busy ants from ship to shore 
and vice versai buying and bartering are the order of the day or hour,— 
for native mats, stools, goats (we are carrying a number I think I 
mentioned), chickens, freshly caught fish, garden vegetables, sugar cane etc 
We got a fair variety of fresh vegetables, carrots and greens, and even 
ripe tarastoes. At breakfast twice now we’ve had slided watermelon. 
It's an almost variety idien ripe, and sweet. 
Adok was about the noisest place yet encountered. place is an 
important trading ’’post" for stout, rolled up mats or idmt we might call 
porch curtains or blinds. The %3rptians use them that way, for roofing 
base, house partitions, light fences 8«id idiat not. Hereabouts the 
natives make them, and the Arab traders aboard buy then. (Most of the 
crew and mess boys seem to b e traders working on the str, for the ’’free” 
ride and trading opportunities) The mats are carted aboard and carried 
