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byn^ a3i»g a bity^ Howevar, thie^ftore wm 
6/2/55 
are ra/ longer ^ dally occu^wnoo, 
Before lunch the sun was out again,-- -we made Jebelem where we left 
our oil-tank barge and cargo barge, so now there are just It passenger 
carrying ones with us, the one on which m live and sleep to the left of 
the steamer proper and the second and two third class ones that are being 
pushed along before it, %e first hills of any consequence were some 
distance back of the thatohed hut settlanfent, — rathar abrupt, sides (?) 
irregularly shaped hills,— but too far away to pick off a piece of the , 
material of idiich they are composed, I am, bowevw, continuing gathering 
soil samples here and there, but because we had planned to fly from Entebbe 
to Juba, all nets and tanks went home fron Entebbe, I’d liked to have had 
a few Nile fish for the Museum. The one th^ call the **calf” is very, very 
excellent eating, well favored, and virtually without bones. The wider 
river is shoalier here, scarcely 5 feet and to get turned about and back 
into the channel a smaller steamer, perhaps kept here for tug-boat 
purposes tied up alongside to assist us out to mid stream. For a couple 
of hours one of the deck hands has been sounding along side with a bamboo 
iQf pole,— five feet touches bottom, occasionally there’s less and we 
buH^j idong a bit. However, the shore caress of the several days gone, 
are no longer a daily ooourronoe. A few more hours to auppeo*, one more 
night aboard and we shall be in Koati, idiere next mid d«y we take the 
train for Khai*toian, I’m afraid it will be too late for you to join us 
so close to homej «jd I do wonder sosehow things are going with you folks, 
and hope they are well with you, your family, and ejqjectationa. Tou know, 
Mrs. Bredin I had hoped you would assist with note taking if only with 
copies of letters hesne. We’ve needed a fuller day to day account, and 
I do have more notes than I’ve committed to paper here, but not as many 
as I would have liked. However, the pictures will fill in a gap, 
both visually and mentally. I know that you will be as anxious to s ee 
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