The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-30
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WARRIORS FROM THE soUDAN.
Unattractive in Appearance but the
Genuine Thing.
From the New York Times


Genuine Thing.
From the New York Times.
The people who base their ideas of a
Soudanese warrior upon the pictures pub
lished in the illustrated papers at the
time of the SOudanrwar. or upon the ballad
OF RudEard ILiplng, anent a certain
.tuzzN-wUzzy," a gaunt giant hero Of the
desert, With eyes in his head more like
blazing Goals than human Orbs, betOl5en-
ing a hears for which the rifles and bavo-
nets Of the British infantry had no ter-
rors, would have received a rude shock of
disappointment had they seen the two
sorry specimens OF the SOudanese race
tllat sqQatted renOSafuliy on pile of IN
speakably dirty baggage through a great
part Of yesterday aft moon on the dock
o. the Wilson Line Steamship Company
IN Brooklyn.
These two disappointments in question
were part OF a CONSIGNMENT of thirteen
SOudanese, five being females, shipDed on
the steamer Richmond Hill from London.
along with twelve Egyptian fellahs, all
round for the worlds fair at Chicago
The party arrived on Saturday, and after
d ileGting glimpse at the beauties of Ellis
island We're landed yesterday morning.
with the exception of the two Sou
danese and three anathctic Egyptians
AZ.
strange visitors had taken advantage of
their landing to recreate themselves with
the delights of a Sunday in Brooklyn.
All Ben Yacar, who brought the men
over, gave the name Of one of the SOudan-
este as MOhammed Ali, which it would
seem is the Arabic equivalent for John
smith, and occupies about the same
amount of room in the Soudanese direc-
tory. The name of the other il is not
f'pnnDGinp to yK.Yrifn ii, l-.--
pronounce.
Both men, although of different tribes.
are, rs the name Soudanese implies, of
the pure negro type the complexion shad-
ing from coffee color into ebOn black, and
the hair being crisped and woody. The
type IS by no means low, however, as was
proved by the comparative straigh tness
Of the facial angle, the intelligence OF the
black, beady eyes, and the shape of the
nose and lip, far more clearly cut than in
the case of most African negroes.
Their costumes We're, to say the least of
II, singular and hardly sayory. Monam-
med Ali, over his own hair, had a peruke
of glossy horse hair, adorned with such
ODDS and ends as the cartridge case
from an army revolver, a broken lead
pencil, several battered bits of tin and
copper, with cOwrie shells, blue glass
bangles and beads. On his forehead was
strapped circular mirror, round his neck
and waist were strings of cowrie shells,
and he carried as a sort of hustle or
dress improver' a bundle of goat hoofs.
which ratified together as he walked. A
dirty shirt and a still dirtier pair of
breeches that disclosed the shanks of a
pair of yellow, clay-colored pipestem legs,
terminating in red Turkish slippers, com
pleted his "get-up"
His friend was content with far less
trinketry, two wooden S6ewers, placed
transversely through his woody hair, com
prising the whole of his style of hair
dressing. Both of this mans checks were
deeply slashed, evidently for purpose of
adonment, there being three regular
rows of transverse cuts over each law.
Both men were following the mahdi, a
fact that was curiouSly and hardly pleas
antly accumulated when the New York
Times reporter repeated to one of them
the words ''Khartoum, Gordon Pasha. 3"
The man jumped up from his sitting
posture in twikkling and brought the
heavy club he carried up to his shoulder
after the manner of presenting and firing
a muSket.
"Boum!" he exclaimed initiating the
report of the gun. Then he threw up his
hands as if falling under the shot. He
ended his little bit of acting by passing
his hands across his throat in a peculiarly
| gruesome and suggestive manner with an
| evil grin on his face.
The ships steward was asked his opin-
ion of the Soudauese fair sex.
Fair sex be bowed" said he. IVY,
| they're as black as a ton o. coal on dark
| night. They wears rings on their noses
and bells on their toses, just like the lady
| OF Banbury Cross, don't you know, 'er as
| Is IN the nursery rhyme An, la yer
| needs to ave a nose wot is color blind, so
to speak, when them female parties is
around, or else keep well to wind'ar of
! 'em all the time"
| To judge by the one English phrase
that Mohammed Ali and his copfrere
! with the skewered hair have both mas
| tered, 1t would seem that the elements of
| civilization have. during the voyage, been
| implanted in their breasts. 1t was
"Batatas no good. Whisky, hum! ha!
| good, good"
The thought of the whisky inspired
Mohammed to such a degree that he
| Obliged his visitors by giving the dance
| which he will give at Chicago. II was
| the dance du ventre" the dance which
! delighted Paris at the Moulin Rouge and
shocked London at the Royal Aquarium
| some few years ago. Whether Chicago
VIII appreciate its barbarlc eccentricities
! remains TO be seen
The whole party left for Chicago in the
! evening. The Egyptians are to pursue
! their trades of silversmiths, potters. car
yera, and weavers in the Egyptian village
| The Souddnese are to eXempliGy the man
ners and customs Of their country for the
edlhcatlon of the visitors to the fair.