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The White Monk of Timbuctoo The white monk of Timbuctoo http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.CH.DOCUMENT.sip200005 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org The white monk of Timbuctoo Author/Creator Seabrook, William Buehler Date 1934 Resource type Books Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Middle Niger, Mali, Timbucktu Source Smithsonian Institution Libraries, DT553 .T6S4X Rights By kind permission of Bill Seabrook and Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. (Larousse Group). Description A biographical account of Pere Yakouba (Auguste Dupuis), a French priest who visited Timbucktu early in his life. He left the priesthood and built a new life in Timbucktu. 29 illustrations. Format extent 312 pages (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.CH.DOCUMENT.sip200005 http://www.aluka.org Smithsonian Institution <7 Cibraries Alexander Wetmore 19,4 6 Sixth Secret, 1955 a- x, ýrwý THE WHITE MONK OF TIMBUCTOO by the same author ADVENTURES IN ARABIA Published also in England and in Dutch, French, Hungarian, Swedish, and Arabic. THE MAGIC ISLAND Published also in England and in Czech, French, German, .Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. JUNGLE WAYS Published also in England and in Danish, French, German, Italian, and Swedish. AIR ADVENTURE Published also in England and in French. /A// A YAKOUBA TODAY The White Monk of Timbuctoo BY WILLIAM SEABROOK Illustrated HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY NEW YORK L\ LIRRE COPYRIGHT, 1934, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. Second printing, October, 1934 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA BY QUINN & 3ODEN COMPANY, INC., RAHWAY, N. 3. Designed by Robert osephy PREFACE I TRIED to persuade, coax, bribe, buy, bully him into doing it himself. He has the ability. He could have written an autobiography that would have curiously combined the respectively scandalous and saintly qualities of that roistering, rodgering hellion Benvenuto Cellini and the Blessed Saint Francis of Assisi-with a touch of Marco Polo added. But when a man is indifferent to fame and money and suffers no itch to exteriorize his ego, most arguments fall flat. It may be cynically pointed out, with more than a grain of truth, that the reason why Pere Dupuis-Yakouba is so beautifully indifferent to such gewgaws, material and immaterial, is that he is already amply supplied with them. He is the leading citizen of a fabled city' in which he has lived richly and usefully for many years, beloved and honored. He has no rating in Bradstreet's or on the stock exchange, and his name is totally unknown to bankers in New York, Cincinnati, Atlanta, or San Francisco, but he lives abundantly in a rambling mud palace, surrounded by family, servants, slaves, handmaidens; with more money than he needs to feed his tribe, buy the best champagne, absinthe, and cocktail ingredients, books in fifteen ancient and modern languages, the finest pipe tobacco-and plenty always left over to give to the poor. As I See Appendix, p. 221. PREFACE for fame, there is no man, white or black, in that vast territory which is French West Africa, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Equator, from Dakar to Lake Tchad, who is more famous in his curious way than PWre Yakouba. White governors, air ministers and generals, black potentates and Moslem princes, all know and visit him. The Christian priests also still visit him and call him "brother," but speak of him, alas, with a mixture of sadness and affectionate regret. For the legendary White Monk of Timbuctoo is a renegade monk and a renegade priest in the technical sense that he unfrocked himself lo these many years. And the consequent legend of Pere Yakouba (though unknown to the English-speaking world) is already so widely current in France and Europe, has been written so often and in so many guises, that it is high time for somebody to undertake to write his true life, since he will never do it himself. Some of these already written, mostly journalistic, legends are grand, and all of them, even the worst, have generally a thread of twisted truth in them. Yakouba has been used to make a page or chapter in nearly all the African books written by distinguished Frenchmen in recent years. Pierre Mille of the Academie Frangaise, Paul Morand, Albert Londres, Charles Louis Royer, Blaise Cendrars, Francis Bceuf, and a dozen other writers less well known in America have all, at one time or another, spent an hour, or a day, or a week on his roof terrace. Some years ago, I did identically the same thing. Visiting Timbuctoo for a short week, I found Yakouba the most vi PREFACE interesting phenomenon of the once Mysterious City,' spent most of the week drinking absinthe with him, and later wrote a chapter adding to the superficial Yakouba legend. It was no better or worse than the other chapters written by my similarly itinerant predecessors. But I found that Yakouba had left a deeper, more lasting impression on my mind and emotions. I felt that he was perhaps the only white man I had ever known who, triply handicapped for the adventure by being civilized, educated, and an intellectual, had found freedom and some happiness-and that he had done it in defiance of the laws of convention only, rather than in defiance or violation of any basic rules of fundamental morality. He seemed to me fundamentally a good man, a free man, and nearly a happy man. I do not believe I have ever known another educated white intellectual who was good and free and happy. My father was a good man, but he was never free or happy- I myself am a free man in the limited sense that I am ready at all times to defy ordinary conventions at any price, including-if need be-that of my reputation or my money or my life, rather than forego what I call my freedom-but I am neither good nor happy. So Yakouba preyed on my mind long after Timbuctoo. I admired and envied him, and in a way loved him. I admired and envied him without in any way wishing to take the precise road he had taken toward a solution of the good life. I certainly do not want to live in Timbuctoo or marry a black woman or beget thirty children- nor does it occur to me to suggest that others do so as a solu2 See Appendix, p. 224. PREFACE tion of a good life for them. It wasn't his black wife and his slaves and his mud palace that I envied and admired; it was the goodness and freedom that I felt in him. I began to feel also (as time passed) that Yakouba's life might have some possible significance with relation to human life in general-his "life" written down by himself in a book, as the word is used in libraries. I felt that, apart from the elements of adventure which should assure its interest as entertainment, it might have a further meaning. I knew that he could write, because I had read some of the things he had been writing for years, principally to amuse himself, partly in scribbled notes, partly on an old cylinder-alphabet typewriter, some of it casually published, all scattered pellmell in his study. So I sent him long letters urging him to do it. Then I bombarded him with cablegrams from Paris, proposing that I should write a long preface to it if that would help any, and guaranteeing that it would be published not only in French but in several other languages, informing him that certain publishers were even prepared to offer him substantial advances. The upshot of it was that he said yes tentatively, and one day I revisited Timbuctoo. He was docile as a lamb at first, but in the end there was no persuading him. Neither money, prospects of outside fame, nor pleas of friendship could budge him. In the final end, principally for friendship's sake, he agreed to give me his whole- hearted collusion in a modified plan. We had plenty of time to do it. He helped me viii PREFACE ransack his studio, his library, his metal trunks, confiding to me all his scattered notes, which we discussed and augmented, his typed, unpublished pages, sketches, ancient photographs-everything that might help me to write his life, since he refused to write his autobiography. So I have undertaken it. W- B. S. Bandol, 1933 ILLUSTRATIONS YAKOUBA TODAY frontispiece HIS LATE EMINENCE CARDINAL LAVIGERIE 20 THE LATE MONSEIGNEUR HACqUARD 20 FOLLOWING THE MASSACRE OF THE FIRST PERE BLANC MISSION TO TIMBUCTOO, THE FATHERS WENT ARMED IN THE DESERT 21 YAKOUBA S ORDINATION IN THE AFRICAN PRESBYTERY 36.
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