A DISTINGUISHED EXPLORER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1268, 25 October 1911, Page 5

A DISTINGUISHED EXPLORER.

(, DR. KARL KUMM ARRIVES TO-DAY.

Dr. Karl Kumm, E.R.G.S., who has won a world-wide reputation by his great, work as a missionary and explorer in Africa, ivill arrive in Wellington from Sydney to-day. He is one of the leading authorities on African problems. Dr. Kiimin is of opinion that .Africa has a great future before it, but ha views with 'serious misgiving the groat efforts of the Moslems to win the continent for Mohammedanism. Speaking in Sydney recently, ho deolared that tho fiercest battle ever fought was likely to be tho conto-t between Crescent and the Cross in Africa. l-Yoni a political, national, business, religious, and eummon-senso standpoint, the only thing possible to stem the tide of Islam, said Dr. Kumm, was to Christianise these Pagan millions, and establish a chain of missions from the Niger to ;the Nile. But the nei'ro should not be Europeanised. Thoro should not be superimposed on them a civilisation that could not fit them. They should be treated as in Uganda. It was a tinie of crisis in Africa. Unless tho missions Christianised the.so 35 million Pagans, who could 1)0 easily ivon, the whole of Africa would go. 'l)he Sudaneso must bo saved from the grip of Islam. It was a challenge to Christendom. A reception, organised by the Young Women's Christian Association, is to bo tendered to Dr. Kumm this afternoon, in tho Mayor's Room, Town Hall, at which it is expected that his Excellency the Governor Will preside. Dr. Kumm will leave to-night for Dunedin, but will return to 'Wellington about November 14 or 15, and will deliver two lecturcs.