The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan . der footthe never-easing treadmill of the sand, dust in the throat,tuneless singing in the ears, searing flame in the eye,—the Sudan is a God-accursed wilderness, an empty limboof torment for ever and ever. Surely enough, WhenAllah made the Sudan, say the Arabs, he laughed!You can almost hear the fiendish echo of it cracklingover the fiery sand.—Steevens. Such is one description and this is the other: Pleasant Trees with immense stems, and of a height sur- Scenes. passing al
The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan . der footthe never-easing treadmill of the sand, dust in the throat,tuneless singing in the ears, searing flame in the eye,—the Sudan is a God-accursed wilderness, an empty limboof torment for ever and ever. Surely enough, WhenAllah made the Sudan, say the Arabs, he laughed!You can almost hear the fiendish echo of it cracklingover the fiery sand.—Steevens. Such is one description and this is the other: Pleasant Trees with immense stems, and of a height sur- Scenes. passing all that we had elsewhere seen (not even ex- cepting the palms of Egypt), here stood in masseswhich seemed unbounded, except where at intervalssome less towering forms rose gradually higher andhigher beneath their shade. In the innermost recessesof these woods one would come upon an avenue like thecolonnade of an Egyptian temple, veiled in the leafyshade of a triple roof above. Seen from without, theyhad all the appearance of impenetrable forests, but,traversed within, they opened into aisles and corridors . w,,.. The River Nile in the Sudan, however, the river flows through a wholly level country. THE LAND OF THE BLACKS 20, which were musical with many a murmuring anywhere was the height of these less thanseventy feet, and on an average it was much nearer onehundred; yet, viewed from without, they very oftenfailed to present anything of that imposing sight whichwas always so captivating when taken from the brinksof the brooks within. In some places the sinking of theground along which the gallery tunnels ran would be sogreat that not half the wood revealed itself at all tothe contiguous steppes, while in that wood (out of sightas it was) many a gallery might still exist.—Schwein-furth. Both descriptions are true. We need only tonote that more than a thousand miles lie betweenthe sections of country which they was looking out upon the
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