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Show I horses or donkeys. Mounted police I officers accompanied the cavalcade. (which was headed by four members i." the camel corps, followers of the Mahdi, brilliantly garbed In gold-faced gold-faced scarlet coata and turban and trousers of snovi white. Tour identical iden-tical appearing camel riders formed the rear guard. As the regal appearing procession moed. Slatln Pasha pointed out h? points of Interest and related ihe scrnps of history with which each spot Is associated is VISITED Roosevelt Sees the City on Left Bank of the Nile Kbartonrm. March 10. The Ronse-ve'ts Ronse-ve'ts paid a perond visit to Okmurman lc(J-iy, The town is on the left bank of the Rher Nile, Just below th-Junction th-Junction of the White Nile und ih Blue Nile, and almost oppos-de Khartoum. Khar-toum. It contains much of Interest to the travelers. The start was made after an early breakfast. Colonel Roosevelt, Mrv. KiKisevelt, Kej-mlf anI Miss Kthel be-Ins be-Ins aceo npanied by Baron Slatln, Ihe Irepector general of Kg pt and other oth-er officers and friend . The party made the trip on the sl-radr sl-radr a yacht Elfin. One object of the excursion wa,t to witness the twelfth Soudano?? regiment on parade. The RooxevelLs visited the Khalif'i Thrnne, near the center cf the town. Near the house In the mahdl's lom'i and within the enclosure of the house 1s tho tomb of Herbert Howard, kon of the Karri of Carlsroke. who was killed at the battle of Karredl while e?tln a a war correspondent. Colonel Ro. swell received the more prominent residents of the Oin-durman Oin-durman dvirlng the lxli at the Kba'.lf's hiiuse today. Following the reception. Ihe inarkM plare and the picturesque !.ia?r were vUlted and some of the houses ef sun-dried bricks, m well n ihe mud huts which predominated, weri examined. Tho Roosevelis reached Omdurman r.t 7 o'clock and found walti"r fo . them on the pier a rroup of Rrltlsh officials, on escort of Soudanese fo' ( dlers and a large number of Arabs. The latter In their robes of many col- I cr made an Interesting picture." I Colonel Roosevelt thook bunds all : around. A camel corpa waa In waiting, but ) Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt, who had Cuelr experience on the "ships of he desert" the day before, elected to trawl today In a dog cart. Others of Ihcir Immediate party mounted |