. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . e Soudan was in full swing; and tohear the genial chattering and soft laughter which accom-panied it, you would think that these good-natured blackshad never heard of war and rapine. Here were Dinkasphenomenally tall and thin, broad-shouldered Shilluks, andfrog-mouthed Bantus from beyond the Swamps, while theruthless, impassive Bagara who has enslaved them all inturns stalked among them with contemptuous mien. The policy of the Khalifa was to gather all thefighting elements of the Soudan under his own eye;thu
. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . e Soudan was in full swing; and tohear the genial chattering and soft laughter which accom-panied it, you would think that these good-natured blackshad never heard of war and rapine. Here were Dinkasphenomenally tall and thin, broad-shouldered Shilluks, andfrog-mouthed Bantus from beyond the Swamps, while theruthless, impassive Bagara who has enslaved them all inturns stalked among them with contemptuous mien. The policy of the Khalifa was to gather all thefighting elements of the Soudan under his own eye;thus at the time of Kitcheners occupation the citynumbered more than a quarter of a million inhabitants,while the corn-growing regions had been depopulated, andgrain had reached such a fabulous price that the systemmust have soon broken down by its own weight. Fromall points of the compass they had been collected at thepoint of the spear, and they exhibit an extraordinarydiversity ; but the disdainful Arab of the conquering raceis never to be confounded with these others—the happy-. A TAME DINKA. THE WHITE NILE 49 go-lucky indigenous Soudanese. However much theymay have mixed the blood, the Arab type keeps itself dis-tinct or reverts to its masterful progenitors, and showsitself as much by demeanour as by lineaments. Both Arabsand Soudanese are good fighters, and many of the Khalifassoldiers have taken service under our flag. Whether anystill cherish their fanatical hatred it is impossible to say;but while the Arab never forgets his pride of race, the full-blooded blacks will serve faithfully whatever masters payand feed them well. That is to say, he will do so as longas no torch is applied to the very combustible material ofwhich he is compounded. But the explosive is there—toomuch of it in my opinion,—and it is difficult to understandagainst what enemy it is intended by us to be used. Some Soudanese belonging to the Dinka tribe wereengaged by us as servants and gun-bearers
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