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Show Sudanese Cleanliness. Throughout the journey, at nothing in my equipment did the natives gaze with such longing as at my supply of soap, writes William Gage Erving in his interesting account in the Century Cen-tury of a trip by Adirondacks canoe down the Nile. It was unduly large when I left Berber; a teek later it was gone. It was almost the only article which had the habit of strangely disappearing by day or night, and to make a present of a tiny piece was to make the recipient a warm friend. The Sudanese river-man river-man is a cleanly animal; he bathes constantly in the river, and washes his clothing frequently, but the white cotton cloth gives little evidence thereof. The water he uses is thick with mud. The scrubbing board is a rock and the cleaning is accomplished by treading underfoot for an in ;n-ite ;n-ite period the muddy heap of -,r-ments. |