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[[top margin in red]] Soudan Wadi Halfa [[/top margin]]
short trousers, and a kaki [[red underline]] shirt worn outside. Bare feel in open leather sandals [[/red underline]] Look very [[red underline]] picturesque and dignified. [[/red underline]] Place is quiet and orderly. Few cries of bakseech. [[red underline]] British influence has trained them. [[/red underline]] I went loitering among few streets, poor but not so hopelessly dirty or careless as some Arabic or Egyptian villages. [[strikethrough]] Evening went out [[/red underline]] Afternoon [[red underline]] went out sailing in a small sailboat with a [[/red underline]] centerboard and a lug sail which is a [[red underline]] step more modern [[/red underline]] than the [[red underline]] Greek Felluca [[/red underline]] with lateen sail. Runs about 4-5 - to the wind. Have sent postal cards with Sudan stamps to everybody. Outside Halfa in [[red underline]] the desert [[/red underline]] there is a 
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[[top margin in red]] Wadi Halfa Soudan [[/top margin]]
[[red underline]] caravan of camels lying [[/red underline]] down in the hot sand - [[red underline]] no shade [[/red underline]] - not a tree nor anything to mitigate the sun.
Most of the stores carry cheap imported products of the quality and price of the average ten cent store in the U.S 
On the other side of the river [[red underline]] another caravan of camels [[/red underline]] squatting in the shadeless desert. Evening saw the train [[red underline]] arrive from Karthum [[/red underline]] White coaches - well arrayed inside, sleeping cars incomparably better than the Wagonlits I had from Paris to Marseille. Arrival of train very quiet and orderly. No cries - [[red underline]] none of the turmoil as seen in Egypt or in France, Germany, Belgium or Italy [[/red underline]] Baggage handled well