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FIRST VIEW OF NATIVES. 
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there is but little, but since we have left the Bahr el 
GazaL the stream runs from one and three-quarters to 
two and a half miles per hour, varying in localities. 
Here it is not more than a hundred yards wide in 
clear water. 
At 11.20 a.m. got under weigh with a rattling 
breeze, but scarcely had we been half an hour under 
sail when crack went the great yard of the “ Clumsy ” 
NUEHR NATIVES COMING TO THE BOATS. 
once more. I had her taken in tow. It is of no use 
repairing the yard again; and, were it not for the 
donkeys, I would abandon her. Koorshid Aga's boats 
were passing us in full sail when his diahbiah sud¬ 
denly carried away her rudder, and went head first 
into the morass. I serve out grog to the men when 
the drum beats at sunset, if all the boats are together. 
