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came to draw water; but a young girl in their company, 
whose costume was limited to a bunch of green leaves 
hanging from her girdle, resented being “snapped,” and 
with silent dignity stepped aside into the bush. It was 
a pretty trait, and personally I felt hurt when the girl’s 
elder comrades insisted, in deference to the white man, 
Crested Hawk-Eagle. Shot at Rejaf, March 7th, 1919. 
on her returning to pose. Her inherent objection to the 
camera in a land where nakedness implies no shame, 
seemed to signify some instinctive sense of delicacy, 
latent though such may be in the conditions of to-day. 
[Before finally turning northwards, it is desirable to record 
the few following species of birds characteristic of this—our 
southernmost stretch of Nile. These include, the yellow- 
wattled lapwing (Lobivanellus senegallus ), Nile plovers and 
