The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-03

ton from Sir Francis Reginald Win
gate. the governor general of the Su-
dan, to DIR. James Currie, the president
If the college, that l was taken
through it and given an insight into its
workings and possibilities. The in
stitution stands on the bank of the
Blue Nile at the southern end OF
khartum etWee the British barracks
and the palace of the sirdar. 1t is a
handsome structure of dark red brick
of Moorish architecture, running
around three sides of Il lar %VVithg
the front facing the river. a the back
are beautiful gardens ana at the rear
of them a sort of experimental planta-
ton, where DR.. Currie is testing
whether tea and certain other shrub
can be successfully grown.
The college building is Of two stories
with a tower over the center. About
the inside run wide corridors or gall
lcries which are separated from the
gardens by great columns, forming
clOlSterS UP and down which the long
eoWned turbaned students walk be
tween their hours OF recitation and
study In the wing at the left Of the
entrance are the laboratories, museum
and libraries. and in the front and in
the wing at the right are the many
class rooms which were filled Wits
students during my stay.
n College OF Africans.
After chatting for a time with Dr..
Cufrle about the college we took u
walk through it. visiting the various
rooms. 1t has now something over
500 students, ranging in age from ten
TO eighteen q over. The students
come from all parts of the Sudan and
they arc of all colOrS, from faces as
white as our own to the deepest and
shincst of stove black. Many of them
have their faces SCARED with gashes
n scars, denoting the tribe to
which they belong and could we read
the marks we should find tina their
homes are located in all parts of the
regions tanpaG by the Blue and White
Niles. / saw some VINO came from
the province of the Bahr ell GhazaI,
away dp on the edge OF the Congo
Free State. Others were from VIII
lagos in Fashoda, near the river So
bat, and others from the borders of
Abyssinia and from the regions along
the Red Sea. There We're quite a num-
Der who are sons of the richer chiefs
Of kordoIan and Dar~Fur. and not a
few from Dongola and Berber. Some
of the EOyS were dressed in the fez
caps and owns of Egypt and others
wore the white urbans and long robes
of the people Of central Africa.
Among them were Coptic and Moham-
medan Egyptians, some few Bedouins
and here ana there q negro.
Many of the students have features
like ours. Their noses are straight,
their lips thin M their hair not
kinky, although they are black. Such
boys are not negroes. They are the
descendants OF people from Arabia.
and their ancestors had reached a
high decree Of ciyilizat ton during the
Middle Ages when the Arabic schools
and universities We're noted over the
world.
For the Sons Of Shcil<s.
The college here is divided into
three departments. The first is for
n sons of sheihs and is devoted TO
h training of teachers for the Mo-
hammedan courts. The British are
governing the Sudan IS FAR as posi-
BILE through the natives. They respect
h native religions n the native lam
guage and therefore the instruction in
this par of the college is altogether
in Arabic. The student are taught
the Koran and the Koranic law. they
write all their exercises in Arabic.
take dictation in Arabic and are well
founded in the Mohammedan religion
and especially as it bears upon the
fine looking fellows, dressed almost
uniformly in turbans and gowns. a:.d
they have. the ariStocratic bearine
which shows them to be the sons Of
chiefs.
After Governments Jobs.
The second department of the college
IS filled by those who hope to ge-
minor appointments under the govern.
ment or by general education to ii
themselves for business and private
citizenship In this department botl
of the boys are young. In one class
9oom l found a score of brown aps