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The Sudan (1907) Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/sudanshortcompenOOkumm The Supan Gordon Statue at Khartum "Warrior of God, man's friend, not here below But somewhere dead, far in the waste Sudan Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know This earth hath borne no simpler, nobler man." Tennyson. At the centre of Khartum stands a simple, noble statue in memory of General Gordon. The hero of the East Sudan is represented seated on a dromedary's back, looking out across the vast dark realms of inner Africa. " Ought not that figure to have faced the city ? " a traveller asked a guide. 11 " No, sir," replied the native ; they set him looking, not toward the palace where he lived, nor towar s the Nile, by which he might have escaped, but towards the Sudan for which he died. " He is waiting, sir, for morning to dawn across the Sudan." facts ano jftQures about tbe SLano of 2>arftness BY H, KARL W. KUMM PH.D., F.R.G.S., Etc. With an Introduction by the late Mrs. KARL KUMM (nee Lacy Guinness) ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND METEOROLOGICAL TABLES LONDON : MARSHALL BROTHERS KESWICK HOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW, E C W. SIMPSON AND CO., LTD., PRINTERS, RICHMOND AND LONDON. TO THE MEMORY OF MY FELLOW WORKER, MY TEACHER IN MANY THINGS, MY HELPMATE, MY WIFE, LUCY I DEDICATE THIS BOOK. PREFACE THIS book was conceived in tears. Between its beginning and end lies a grave, in which was laid a beloved wife. Her heart was burdened with the needs of the Sudan. She seemed to live to make the needs known to the Church, and to rouse Christiandom to a crusade. The writer of the book was the pioneer who visited and surveyed the land : she was the pro- phetess of the venture. I can never forget her first visit to me, to open my eyes, to the Sudan. I was laid aside. As she left she " said : You are resting. How I wish I could rest." She could not rest, for the call of those Christless millions. But God has given her rest now. She rests from her labours, and her works do follow her. The evangelisation of the Sudan will be her work. If we may believe that the departed concern themselves with our world and its affairs, I am sure that she is in heaven labouring for the Sudan, and beseeching our Lord to intervene, to rouse His Church, to send His apostles to those Pagans who are drifting to Islam because His messengers tarry so long. Dr. Kumm is doing her work and his own. Driven by a strong faith, charged with a knowledge of the country vii. ! ; Preface and the opportunity which no other man possesses, he is issuing this picture of the vast country, that the hearts of men may be stirred. How I wish that his voice could be heard by all who read the book. The written word seems cold in comparison with his glowing speech, his singing conviction, his trumpet-call to service and sacrifice. But as God lias used a written Word to reach many more than the voice can reach, and glorifies His Word above all His name, may He use this word of His servant ; may He give it acceptance in the heart of English Christians may He incline even the busiest to ; note this wide mission-field waiting for its reapers I say English Christians especially, though America also will listen, because on us is the nearer responsibility for we have assumed the Government of Northern Nigeria, and it is our protectorate of the country which is giving to the Mohammedan traders and missionaries a security and freedom which they did not enjoy before. All the world has a claim on Christians : but Northern Nigeria has a special claim on the Christians of this happy land. Robert F. Horton. January 20, 1907. viii. AUTHOR'S PREFACE HAVE repeatedly been asked to write a book con- taining general information about the Sudan. In my bereavement and great sorrow through which I have had to pass lately, hard work seemed most desirable, thus this little volume has taken shape and form. I fully realise the difficulty of giving multum in parvo. It has been my endeavour to group facts and figures as correctly as possible. If I should have failed in certain points I beg to solicit the reader's kind help in correct- ing me. My thanks for assisting me in compiling and illustrat- ing the book are due to the Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, to the American United Presbyterian Mission, to the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, the Missionaries of the Sudan United Mission, Dr. H. Grattan Guinness, Dr. Lewer, Mr. Higgins, and to the Rev. John Bailey for help in reading a proof. H. Karl W. Kumm. Mount View, Castleton, via Sheffield. ix. CONTENTS •CHAPTER PAGE Introduction— Here endeth the Second Lesson - 3 I. Welcome—White Man - - - - 13 II. Where is the Sudan, and what is it ? - - 19 III. Who has Explored it ? - - - - 43 IV. Who has Conquered it? - - - 51 V. A Crisis - - - - - - 63 VI. An Expedition of Investigation - - - 73 VII. Up to Bautchi - - - - - - 95 VIII. The Last Night at Pioneer Camp - - - 109 IX. The Open Sore of Africa—Slave Raiding - - 115 X. Only a Woman ------ 133 XI. The Land of the Lions and Leopards - - - 145 XII. What Grows in the Land? (Botany) - - - 163 XIII. What makes things grow? (Meteorology) - - 175 XIV. The Water-ways (Hydrographic) - - 1 89 XV. Where are we ? - - - - - - 203 Addenda ------- 213 xi. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Gordon Statue at Khartum Frontispiece A Son of the Sudan ... - 6 British Troops - - 13 A Pagan King in the Bautchi Country - 15 Map of the Sudan .... - 19 Khartum - - ... 21 A Sudanese - - - 23 At Home in the Desert - 25 Young Manhood ----- - 27 State Barge of the King of the Canoe Men - 29 All non-Christian to this hour - 3i - Bishareen on Camel - 33 - View of Kano from D'allah Hill - 35 - A Kano Gate - - - - 35 - The Great Wall of Kano - 53 Entrance to the Compound of the King of Kano - S3 Interior of Emir of Kano's House - 55 The of Emir Kano's Palace ... - 55 Ceiling of the Emir of Kano's Audience Chamber - 57 Interior of Emir's Palace - • 57 Map of Sudan on Europe - - 63 Forest Scenery, Lower Niger - 77 In - the Niger Delta - 77 Among the Palms at Ibi - - 83 xiii. List of Illustrations PAGE Waiting to cross ------- 83 A Mid-day Halt on the March - - - - 85 A Study in Smiles - - - - • 85 Wase Rock 89 First House at Rock Station - - - - - 89 King of the Burmawa calling on Dr. Kumm at Kanna - - 95 A Messenger from Fadl-Allah ----- 102 Soldiers at Bautchi jo2 Rock Station, Native Huts at Pioneer Camp - - - 109 At Rock Station - - - - - - -111 A Slave Gang - - - - - - _II 5 The Arab Attack - - - - - 116 Down came the brutal lash - - - - - 119 Tom from Kuka - - - - - - -121 Where they drop there they lie, and the wild beasts of the wilderness feed upon them - - - - - 121 Ex-King of Kano- I2 ...... 5 A Slave in the Field ------ 125 Freed Slaves at Zungeru - - - - - - 129 Only a Woman ------- 131 Daughters of Darkness ------ 133 Method of Carrying a Child ----- 136 Women Pounding Corn - - - - - - 136 Bautchi Woman and Child - - - - - 141 Hausa Man, Woman and Child at Bautchi - - - 141 Rock Baboons - - - - - - -149 Waterbuck - - - - - - 155 The Ship that Lost her Way - - - - - 203 The King of Shendam ------ 203 Giant King of the Ankwe - ... 205 King of the Burmawa ...... 2o6 A Golgotha ... ... 207 King of Dempar and his Councillors - 209 A King's Son and his Companion .... 209 xiv. " "Here endeth the Second Lesson B — INTRODUCTION E were sitting in the little Curbar church. Outside across the hayfields, the summer winds were Y V blowing, and the big ox-eyed daisies nodded in the sun. Inside, the vicar's well-known voice was reading morn- ing service, and as he read one saw the scenes the Second Lesson pictured. The pillared aisle and Gothic windows of the church, through which one caught a glimpse of Derbyshire hills and meadows, gave place to inner vision, and we were far away in old Jerusalem. Instead of organ, choir, and reading desk, one saw in thought the Temple court, the thronging crowds of people, the surging and the tumult of the Apostle Paul's last day—last hour in that scene. The "Jews which were of Asia " have stirred up the whole city to cast out the man who teaches " all men everywhere " the news of the new King Christ. Swarming from filthy alleys and up steep streets of steps, the rabble of the city has joined with Scribes and Pharisees in one wild howling outcry against Paul. They have pulled him out of the temple, and the massive doors swing-to behind the raging " " " mob of fanatics and their vengeful Kill him ! Kill " him ! News of the uproar reaches the chief captain of the band, who with soldiers and centurions sweeps down among the people demanding who the prisoner is and what crime he is charged with. 3 ! Introduction " How vividly the old story reads ; Some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude ; and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried to the castle. And when he came upon the stairs . he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people." Deafening shouts " Away with him ! " are rending the air. Amid them all a calm, clear voice reaches the captain's ear. " " May I speak unto thee ? An interchange of words, and Paul has received " licence " to preach there on the spot.
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