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temple: near which Cook's has installed a "rest house" where a simple cold lunch is served. Then back to our steamer by means of the sail boat.
The lateen sail felluca keeps sail furled and in stead of [[strikethrough]] runni [[/strikethrough]] tacking against the wind, four men row and manage to arrive about 2 minutes before we with our lug sail, tacking against the wind - current [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] of about 1½ knots - with us - get to destination about 2 P.M 
Later on tea etc.
March 3. Boat started return trip at dawn. Thermometer on deck 58°F. Later on comfortably warm. Brilliant moon in this dry atmosphere
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March 4. Early in morning before breakfeast steamer stopped to see ^[[x See Baedeker]] [[strikethrough]] half submerged [[/strikethrough]] temple of [[strikethrough Kalabash [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Kalabasheh]]. First temple stands in a village of [[red underline]] berberines, [[/red underline]] (photos) a remnant of a former tribe. Women [[red underline]] rings [[/red underline]] in their noses and hair plaited in thin plaits. Dragoman says they are [[red underline]] remnant of a former tribe which in its time had a bright civilization - Now entirely illiterate speak a language of [[/red underline]] their own. Are [[red underline]] very reliable and make good servants for officers. [[/red underline]] Saw no young men. Only old men and women and children. They need no backseesh and kept quite and mute. [[red underline]] Women and children objected to be [[/red underline]] photographed. I finally manage to [[strikethrough]] catch a gro [[/strikethrough]] snap of a group of children and [[red underline]] started to distribute some small coins but