May 29 j cont, aboard Hile atr. 
June 1, 1955 
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was no way for me to get then back to the States without a lot of trouble, 
too much to make them worth the wliile. As you know from boat we 
transfer to train around the cataract before taking the boat again. But 
one can buy an awful lot of work for very little cash in the Upper Nile 
countiy. 
Before lunch this day June 1 at llsii5 p.m. we tied up at Buffalo 
Cape (in parenthesis on the chart posted on the upper deck, “Fangak Kir")« 
A repetition of the place previously visited,— the thatched huts and 
native dwellings, maybe a little differently disposed back from the shore, 
but with the life, and iabits, smells and sounds pretty much the same. 
Since the day after Mongalla, part of June 30 through June 1, all we've 
seen of shore vegetation has been largely paps^rus,— miles and miles 
and better than two whole days of it. (kiewonders wliy these plants are 
not being used for paper iuanufacturej the old Egyptians didj and sure 
enough before the first world war the Germans tried their hands at it, 
but dismantled, wrecked or blew up the plant with the advent of the war. 
If pursued, the &iglish, or the Egyptian government might be able to 
turn up some records} the place they had their Tactoryj^ was Lake No, [Yea, "Mo.**] 
Tenperature quite late at night June 1 was 8ii degrees though I 
was not awake at the time a brief stop was made at Tonga. These names 
will help trace the Nile chajinels we traversed. By the morning of June 
2nd we had passed out of papyrus land. The shores were drier, and with 
grass and occasional, and at tiiaes scattered trees and ajiall groves of them* 
Above I should have put in that at C^e Buffalo the most striking 
thing was the long piles of three foot long wood, sticks or rather tzninks 
of small trees perhaps 3**U Inches in diameter. They still are used for 
firewood but no longer to generate steam on the river boats, most are 
