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Show tlon and bade them goodbye. Each received a present of cash from Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt and a gift from Mrs. Roosevelt. On the sight arming trip today the party occupied a carriage drawn by n handsome pair of horses and escorted by two EgypU&n lancers. Later in the forenoon the Rooaevclts abandoned their carriage for a motor car, and, unaccompanied, drovo into the suburbs. The tentative plans of the Roose-velts Roose-velts provide for their departure from here on a special train Thursday night. On tho way to Cairo a stop of one day will be made at Assouan, on the rat bank of the Nile, and two days will be given over to a visit to Luxor. I1RT01 CELEBRATES Khartoum, March 16. Col. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's second day in Khartoum was plveu up largely to sight-peeing. The Most Interesting place of all to the former president was the battlefield of Kerreri, which lies seven miles north of Omdurmnn. It was here that the advance of the Ang o-Egypt-lan army under Sir Herbert Kitchener was contested by the Khalifa und forty thousand men and lt was here that the bodies of ll.oo dead der-vlsLus der-vlsLus were counted, the following day. Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel and Ker-inlL Ker-inlL Slatln Pasha, inspector general of EgyptMag. Wilson, Governor of Khartoum, Prince Auerspert. Mrs. As rot, an Intimate friend of Mrs. RooHcvcIt and others went to Omdurmnn Omdur-mnn on the Sirdar's yacht came to her dock and Col. Roosevelt Immediately Immedi-ately became interested in the horsemen, horse-men, who were picturesquely Rttlred. Ho Inspected tbo squad and then the party mounted camels preparatory to the "eovtn rulle trip over the dusty road. Inumernble cameras were focujied on the Americans who teemed teem-ed to enjoy their unusual experience Vt less than did the crowd who had gTithered and who cheered the former president na he mounted a "ship of IhV desert." lfrrtoum. March 15. Reut on inak-inc inak-inc tV;41 mosr of their brief stay In tht, A v capital of the Egyptian gen- 'nil eor(lrnmenf- ot tho So,",an th0 Wrflht8 Blly a"Mr CoV I Roosevelt was especially W , V"lntc ,he intervals between 10 point of historic inter-ml inter-ml i r'' 'Tlns callers and making mir . TJ Ufh of nl voluminous corre-(jk corre-(jk rico as he hd been able to x- IUri1't I Vbreaktnst he summoned to fnativo servants who had ac-r-tntM S4 hUtt-though tho wjMhJlr Ti |