Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-02-19

Arabs in their bournaises, Turks
with the traditional fez, Copts with
their bashe, and Birhareen Arabs
with their knotted and combined locks
of hair, standing up like quills of the
porcupine, wonder through its irregu-
lar, narrow and badly drained streets.
1t is no wander that Khartoum is un-
healty. When it rains, great pools
of stagnet water are formed. and from
these fevers are generated and the dead
ly miasrna does its work among the
people.
The street that borders the river
side looks down upon the water from
an elevation along which stately palm
trees and large gardens of eitron and
orange trees stand. Many neatly
whitewashcd buildings along the river
bank, and these are relieved by the
minarets and mosques which give the
place the air of city in Upper
Egypt, like Benisooef or Roda in a
large way. There are, of course, the
characteristic mud houses, the tropical
donles, the dedebahas hauled on the
beach for repairs, the bales of cotton
heaped on the shore, the sacks of gum,
the tusks Of ivory and the stevedore
population who brave crocodiles for
their patty paras.
The palace of the Governor is an
ugly looking building facing the riv-
er, and the helmeted and casqued ne
groes who form the guard Of honor
are dressei! in white uniforms. There
are good deal of complex scoundrel.
ism in the city. 1t is the result of fif-
ty years of the slave trade. This has
attracted the worst class of rogues who
live on the Layent. An army of men
as large as the army of the United
States is engaged in capturing the ne
grocs of the Upper Nile and it is said
that 10000 slaves, worth about $50
head, yearly pass through the for
tuous thoroughfare of the gateway
city. The Turk, with his Moslem re-
ligion, sees no great harm in the traf
fic, for he is taught polygamy and the
scrvitude of one race to another. Al
khartoum the hatem is regarded as q
sacred institution. Even if the noun.
tain passes Of Abbysiana were sealed
up, the seaports of the Cape of Good
Hope blockaded and all the outlets OF
Central Africa barricaded, yet it is
believed that the same silent Caravans
will be found starting over the de-
serts, and the same suspicious slave
dealers sneaking through Khartoum
across the Red Sea or the Persian
Gulf. For 400 miles south of Khar
toum the white Nile is covered with
rich cotton fields, which slopes away
from the banks of the river from five
to fly miles into the interior. The
resources of the country are immense
and Khartoum is destined to play al
important part in the development O.
the resources of Central Africa.
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