The New York herald., 1872-10-12
trip to four days from Cairo to Khartoum would
yie}d tO ERvDt 100 600. COO a wear

trip to four days from Cairo to Khartoum woulS
yield 10 Egypt 500 100000 year. 1sH@
| TIE % ASCENT OF TUE WHITE ut ,N.;s. N,Ls: MA. -.
passed through tho tribes Of Che Che HsssSnica who
| arc accredited with showing wonderful disregard
OF the family tie. The banks Of the White Nile art
cattle, WHO come down to the shore to drink They
ecoupy vast and lertile tract but prefer the occu
osSn s Or
waste. But the avarlce Of this tribe Is as greal
| % that OF any other In Africa. Hence they march
The soil Tor thirty miles above the junction OF the
Blue and White Mites Is something magnificent Itii
almost black. soft, and resembles the finest qnaity
ossss s's asss ssr s Sps sS miles
/ khartOum we disembarked and inspected
TwO HUNDRED THOUSAND ACBEs or LAND.
MnlGn duIins the :sin produce dnrrah and corn
e n's
sary to dig canal several hundred ieet long, and
by such conduit he can irrigate an immense tract
per year. This is only an example Of the many
pieces OF territory not utilized. Outlying from Mad
Nile ami TO the southward and the further you pen.
citrate to the eastward the richer the soil becomes.
what a @ but
undergoing inspection for the seeds OF lasting
ssrELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,"
| said the Governor General OF the S0udan TO me,
shat have found new America In the heart OF
and opuience OF territory which, far back in the
Fl s a1n S
to bring Of people @ within & the circle OF
ago as tribe OF savages who were wont to commit
murder and theft Now they. are engaged In the
cultivation OF cotton and their production Is abun-
dant and OF q superior quality. Not alone In this
Nile region. but In every quarter OF the Water Shed
mGning TOWARD ,he indian ocean is 70 oe io9ha hc
points to the future OF Central and Northern Africa
as one vast garden OF sugar, cotton and grapes.
Lest 1t might be thought that the Governor was In
dulging In spirit OF enthusiastic exaggcraton,
ana tlas your correspondent has been d%psd by an
THE PREJUDICES
which must be buried in deep grave, and the GUS
toms which Eaust be abolished before such pOlitt-
cal and commercial structure as the African En-
plre can dominate the Eastern tropics These i'm
pcdiments are physical social and financial. and 1t
YEAR. They arc the Srotry and isnorance OF the
largest portion OF the Mussulmans and tho
disinclination Of the people to break away
| have observed after months residence In
Khartoum, and from the average sentiment OF
foreigners there, 1t seems that the Christians
much better liked than in former years. they open
stores, create commerce and live In semi Euro
pean, semi fashion. One OF the greatest
evils OF the country is the want OF money.
THIN PROPRIETORIAL VALUE OF THE sOUDAN
is estimated here at $50 but there Is not in
The consequence is that there arc many money
lenders here who loan money on good security at
four to five per cent q m0nth-mark well sixty per
centum per annum or course they become rich.
The country Is sadly in need OF a banking system
which will protect and succ0r the small merchants.
Profits on sale are, however, enormous, and almost
every man OF small means Is a speculator. Labor
Is not wen or even Justly compensated The gov
ernment is the most liberal with salaries, and the
European Is always paid more than the Arab.
In order to express more exactly the condition
Of the soudan have carefully prepared the follow
ing table, which gives the !; I '.,'.- ..ti
COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES AND THE PRICE OF
~. STAPLE ARTICLES
In the ge:-DOctor, $75 per month; engineer,
$75 per month; clerk writer Of Arab, 800 per
month; mechanics, $75 per month"; captains Of
steamers, $40 per month; captains OF barks, 81 SO
per month; sailors, 90 per month; cooks, g per
month; carpenter ARAB or Europeanj, $50 per
month; tinmaker, Sis per month; workman in
ground, So so per month; commercial servants, $5
per month; house servants, 81 per month; slave
Average price Of an Abyssinian horse, $15 aver
age price OF horse ARAB, 800; camel, $l2;
aromedary I $40; donkey 50; donkey TO ride, s4o;
TO buy house iAfrlcan stye). $500; the ground
,he es espaas o n ns
quality, $40; for leo pounds OF gum, second quality
DOCTORS NOT IN DEMAND.
The doctors are not In demand. II a Mussuman
Is sick he sends for the Kadi, who recites the
ne pSfs Wn , e
ualized body, drinks the water and the cure pro-
ceeds. man who lives next to my house was
affiicted with disease. He sent to me- knowing
was white, and applied for remedies judged
gin to be the best; at least it went as far as my
knowledge OF his symptoms But the invalid
would not take IT, because 1t is prohibited by the
Koran. The other trades are fairly patronized.
word about ivory: ,.
l have put down at 800. This Is the average
price. CuriOusly enough, the race OF elephants
by the ivory traders, wars and civilization The
traders from zanzibar have likewise driven
the tSo%sss monsters into tine Interior and it
alone viii viii suiice to ~ extinguish il" the va last
prestige OF the African cOlossi. They are no more
the Equator. have tried to discover how many
Of the beasts exist-that Is, the eephantine popula
ton-and as near as l can estimate there remain
In Central Africa 100000, more or less. 1t Is now
but few years ago that elephants were found as
high as the fourteenth degree OF north latitude.
reach Fachoda, because OF the shadows on the
route During the day we sailed through lovely
UM nions nnI cTveIe9 W 9,
vegetables immense herds OF beeves drinking at
the shore, often thousands in body; small cone
topped huts sheltering family Of twelve for in
stance camels, camels, cames was enchanted.
The Nile OF Lower Egypt has dull monotonous
shore, compared with the bright, smiling green
banks OF the
BAHR-EL-ABBIAT.
You have before you river, extending away to
the southwark, white as the sheen OF silver en-
wonderful people. the shillooks small dug outs,
tect here and there modest habitatlon, and then
in the open bed OF velvet verdure. The natives,
naked, come down to the shore and cry out to the
Pacha to stop. His Excelency is just, the steamer
slows down, the gig pulls OF to the shore and the
man Is brought on board. He turns out to be an
Arab, living on the borders Of Kordofan. lie Is
very handsome and speaks Arabic with purity.
The tax gatherer has tried to get levies out OF
the Arab-one for Khartoum, the other for Kordo-
fan. This Is the price OF being border state man.
The steamer goes ahead few miles. There Is
other cry; again we stop. An old man, an Arab,
protests against paying 81 taxes because he is old
and has four sons. The Governor refuses his petl-
tion, for the old man is rich and well afford to
divert four dollars to the State. We remain here
for half day taking In wood, while His Excellency
is attending TO official business. The old man has
taken up his position abreast the cabin window on
shore and at intervals utters loud cries.
'sMoS-L0OM Mos-LoOM MOS-LCoMv
'They have done me Injustice 'Such,- said His
Excellency, lis the way they present petitions i'm
the Soudan." More than a dozen times the steamer
was called from the banks to stop that His Excel
lency could be pettioned to repair some injustice