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[[top margin in red]] Berbers [[/top margin]]
very steady hard working and satisfied people speaking their own language quite different from Arabic [[strikethrough]] 2d Arabs of a b [[/strikethrough]] The [[red underline]] women wear their hair in small plaited strings similar to the representatives of Ethiopians [[/red underline]] as found in Great temples and tombs; 2d [[red underline]] Arabs, [[/red underline]] descendants of the original tribes of Arabia and who [[red underline]] consider themselves superior  [[/red underline]] to the [[red underline]] Nubians [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] and who [[/strikethrough]]; 3d [[strikethrough]] des [[/strikethrough]] people which claim to be the forbears or [[red underline]] ancestors of the modern Turks [[/red underline]] and who in their turn [[red underline]] consider themselves superior to the others [[/red underline]]
[[strikethrough]] Feb 27. The 2 [[/strikethrough]] The more we advance the less the country seems flooded. The huts and villages seem to be better kept outwardly the walls altho' the color of gray mud seem smoothed out
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[[top margin in red]] Nile Nubia [[/top margin]]
Attempts at ornaments, small doors & shutters are visible, some of them painted green. The [[red underline]] date trees [[/red underline]] are less submerged 
Little bits of green foliage here and there. Beautiful sunset. Steamer runs bow forward to the sand bank and lies there over night. [[strikethrough]] Not [[/strikethrough]] Wind nor current strong enough to disturb her position. [[strikethrough]] Strong [[/strikethrough]] Temperature sinks down rapidly; cool refreshing night
Feb 27. Country look more cheerful more [[strikethrough]] trees [[/strikethrough]] date palms, some cultivated land. Stop to see a temple. Much the same as others. [[Coroseo?]], starting point of Caravans. Then further [[red underline]] Dar, [[/red underline]] capital of [[red underline]] Nubia [[/red underline]] At temple made some photos of the [[red underline]] Sheik decorated by Kitchener [[/red underline]] and his brother