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Time and the Sudanése.

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of Africa and the Persian Gulf there la even now no abrupt change in mode of life or culture, and practically no physical obstacle to migration and travel except the Red Sea. Such homogeneity obtains in no other area of similar extént Ir. the world. It would seem, then. that newer forms of transport, in- depedent of roads and making light of deserts or seas, are probably destined to revive those ancient Sudanese routes of commerce and culture which, long before the Mercantile BK., A&B. Christian era, spread, the vestiges of progress among tthe more primi. | Bank of Asia, tive prehistorie folk of Africa, and quite possibly to create or renew A.Bense of common interest and na tionality neither African nor Asia- tie but Sudanesi...

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The Spectacles of Islam, The latest of the great Semitic waves of expansion to dominate the Sudan and the deserts north o it emanated from the Mohamedan religion which grew and sprend about A.D. 622. The European world has consequently for many centuries viewed the Sudan and the deserts through the spectacles of Islam. It has, however, been char- acteristic of the spectacles of Islam or at any rate of African Islam London, July 5.

that they have failed to disclose The word Sudan comes from an

great, differences between Arabic root meaning swarthy or Sudanese peoples, all of whom black.

The Sudanese were to the were classed as hend then. Thus it Araba, at the time of a political was assumed that any idea, custom, ascendancy which spread to mediae or word which could not be direct- val Europe itself, the peoples of ty traced to Islam was indigenous swarthy or dark appearance whose to Africa and part of a cultural habitat lay nearest to Syria, North hotch-patch common to Sudanese

One of the most ancient myths Africa and Europe. They were,

non-Moslems.

of the Sudan was that of the Phoe however, separated from the Medi

Such a mental attitude- the nix or Benti bird of Egypt, a sym-H. K. Fire Ins....$200 terrancan and the Caucasian attitude of Islam-has not been bol of the daily rising and setting races and the main centres of Arab without its effect-on-European or Sudanese, who extended from Douglases-$26

_of_the_sun_among the Ethiopians-

Shipping civilization by the great stretches thought, It is still hardly of desert between the Persian Gulf realized that for several centuries the farthest east of the ancient H. K. Steamboats...$24 25 and the shores of the Atlantic in after the time of Mohamed the pre-work to its farthest west. So to the region of Cape Verde and Cape. valent religion of the Sudan and day the awakening of the Orient Blanco.

Sahara, as also of Southern Arabia, on the one side, and the commer- As

geographical term, was Zoroastrian fireworship and cial drive of the West on the other. therefore, the word Sudan, proper-

allied cults, which did not arise

are revivifying Sudanese comuner- ly speaking, always implied or con- spontaneously in Africa but were

clal Instincts which, though at- noted all the regions subtending on

brought there by the races that rophied for centuries, may contri- the south or lying next the deserts Brat developed the Arabian incense bute not a little to the resources which extend from Oman and Nejt trade. These races must ultimate- of the civilized world under future Kata Mining Ad. 1- through Abyssinia to Lake Chady have owed the camel (their conditions of world production and and the Bight of Benin.

means of transporting the in

rapid transport.-Times. censo). the horas (which served them for movement in war and RED PROPAGANDA IN BRITAIN. Rau peace), and their religion as well, to the camel-owing and horse-owing

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nomads of Central Asia.

year's imprisonment.

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London, July 3, culture known as Capsian which

The Sudan zone

Docks, Wharves, British Communists spend £27,- is, as tha had elements in

Godowns, &c. common with Hebrew Panlmist wrote long ago, 1000 a year in propaganda, according the prehistoric European

H. K. & K. Wharvey..$ cul pre-eminently the zone of "mingled to a Home Office report read by the tura known дз Tardenoisian, peoples," of miscegenation and ab- prosecutor to-day at the trial, at H. K, &.W. Docks...$ But about that period, so it is held. sorption of lighter-skinned North-

Brecon (Wales) Assizes of two China Providents...$5.10 5.20 the retreat of the ice-cap coveringern races by the dominant an. Communists charged with having Hongkew........Th.200 Europe, together with other fac-

darker races more adapted physi: incited soldiers to mutiny. tors, caused, the regions, which areally to climate and environment.

Tho accused

N. Engineerings Th were caught die-Shanghai Docks ...TIs. [117 now the deserts of Arabia and The process of absorption is rapid.

tributing pamphlets to recruits. Africa to become dry and sterile, In three or four generations the

The

men were sentenced to a 6pm.so that the peoples of Capsian cul: type of the lightskinned ancestor

ture migrated-either to the north disappears.

Fantastic as it may or to the south.

seem to the casual visitor, who Frankincense nåd. Myrrh.

goes by physical appearance, there Thus the dawn of history in the the substantial truth of a Sudan

is often no good reason to doubt Sudan, as we know it now, ia wrapt ese notable's statement that he is in obscurity, but with it is mingled descended from a Syrian Ummayad the beginning of human commer-or an Abbasid Caliph of Bagdad. cial activity by land and sea not The cultures and belief of the an- lator than 3800 B.C. Apart from cient world, transplanted into the

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS the precious metals, such as gold, Sudan (sometimes in a decadent which were

On London- first found in the form) by immigration and Sudan, the most valued article of merce, have to, a very large extent Bank, on demand... 1/3 5/16 com. Bank, wire .................... 1/3 5/16 this earliest commerce-an article gone unrecognized and unrecorded. Bank, 4 months' sight 1/8 7/18 regarded as of divine nature-waa incense or frankincense.

The traveller, seeing in a com- Credits, 4 months' It came paund of some remote African vil from Southern

sight

1/4 Arabia and the lage a pile of sand topped by two. Documentary, 4 neighbouring parts of Africa, and earthen platters on one of which

months' sight from remotest antiquity was held is painted a rude cross, would not

1/4 % On Paris to be a panacea for all illa.

So perhaps perceive that the sand is a On demand highly was it esteamed that the "pyramid" or Brahmin "frealtar,"

Credits, tade in aromatic spices and herbs and the cross the equivalent of the was

sight guarded by the

pro-smail golden figure of Prajapati, ducers with the utmost crecy,

Be the "wold spirit," by means of On demand and the secrecy of which the pious Brahmin still Credits, 60 the trade was augmented by the wafts the soul of the devotee to

aight exclusiveness of the religious ideas heaven. Nor would it be suspect- and rites attached to it. Control ed that the name of the petty of the Arabian incense trade was market broker of the Hausas who On demand one of the leading planks in the battene on both seller and buyer, On Calcutta. fo:eign policy of all the great em- and thus makes his living by "fac Wire pires of the ancient world, such as

ing both ways" the market broker On demand Ilabylonia, Assyria, and Egypt. 5. called Dan Baranda--is of similar On Singapore- lousies surrounding this trade, was probably due first to the jea origin to that of Zeus Labaradeus On demand

the Greek deity of ancient Crate. its sanctity and prestige, that Both names come from the sacred. Arabia remained, and has remain double-headed axe which by the ed until now, almost a terra in Hausaя is called-Barandaml. The cognita to the rest of the world. Sudan. In fact, apart from its Dollar Arabia has never .welcomed value as the nearest source to strangers and even to-day is wrapt Europe of tropical raw materials, in a vell of mystery and fanaticism.is the most comprehensive diction Until about A.D. 40 or 60 even ary or encyclopaedia of the ancient Greece and Rome knew little or world that was ever written or can nothing of Southern Arabia, India, be written, for it contains the liv and the regions in which the in- ing cultural residum of very much cense trade was carried on by sca. that once was Babylon or Nineveh. Though the mythology of Greece Ophir, Tarshish or Punt, Egypt or and Rome is fall of Sudanese folk- Carthage... lore, its meaning was evidently but For a large proportion of this half understood, mostly culled great belt of land Great Britain second-band

and woven into is either directly or indirectly narratives of picturesque absurd responsible. It is not to-day, out- ity. But, wbile Europe was ex-side the range of practical deve tremely backward in gaining any lopment that the Sudan, by means adequate knowledge of the regions of aerial or other transport work which formed the Sudan belt, the ing from Nigeria east through the races and civilizations known as Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Aden and Semitic were not equally so. From Muscat, may again become as de a period almost as remote as the finite and specialized a field of com foundation of the firat Babylonian mercial activity as it was about Empire the peoples to the south 2000 B.C. when the Kushite races of the desert--the Sudanesewer of Elam first spread over the gradually schooled by Semitle in straits of Bab-el-Mandeb to the Tuences, and schooled to believe Atlantic and carried on the earliest in the current religious conceptions trade in frankincense and myrrh which obtained among the Semites from age to age.

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