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Title: Five years in the Sudan
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fothergill, Edward
Subjects: Sudan -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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upstanding race, buthopelessly imbued with the idea that it is a degrada-tion for a man to work at anything except the pursuitof game, if such a delightful exercise can be calledlabour. The boys are ready and willing to work,and they are by no means lazy, but once they arriveat the age of puberty they return to their villages,and pass the rest of their lives in hunting and idling.It is almost impossible for anyone who has not hadto combat the deadly effects of this conservatism,to realise how deep-rooted and inseparable it is fromthe native. A few miles to the south of Fashoda the firstmissionary station has been formed, under the super-vision of an Austrian order of Catholics. I askeda priest one day as to the chances of gathering con-verts to Christianity from among the natives of thedistrict, who are at present heathens pure and simple.His reply spoke volumes as to the difficulty to beovercome. If we continue our work as we are doingat present, he repHed, we may, in another hundred
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FROM KHARTOUM TO TAUFIKIER 65 years, begin to think of teaching religion. At presentwe devote ourselves entirely to the training of theyounger natives to agricultural labour, and they take to it readily enough. But their parents he shrugged his shoulders impressively. Only theother day we were gathering our crop of tomatoes,which has been unusually plentiful this season. Theevent had attracted a large number of the adult,as well as of the more youthful population, from theneighbouring villages. They tasted the fruit andwere delighted with it, and fought greedily for asackful which we gave to be distributed among thosewho were present. Later, when the period for plantingarrived, we sent a sack of seeds to the head of thevillage, thinking that they would be delighted at thechance of growing the fruit for themselves. No suchthing ; the sack was returned without thanks. Theirgrandfathers had not planted tomatoes, their fathershad not done so, then why should they ? It is disheartening wor

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