KHARTOUM.
We hear tittle from Khartoum nowadays, but it is making history of the best kind. It is growing into a noble city. says the "Standard." which. j approached by the desert railway i which Lord Kitchener built. is seen in | a beautiful setting of palm trees. ft ! Has public garden*, a church, a hotel. | and on the river a fine steamer is at J the service 'of tourists who wish to j make excursions. The territory to | which it is the capital is under a sysI tern of Government which has pro- ! duced wonderful results. The revenue j of the Soudan in l!* 9*. when the Brit- : ish took it over, was estimated at £§«**>. though it proved to be £3S,O4H). Eight years later it was estimated at over XIHOO.POO. Ijwt year ! it excreted a million. There *as in I !?♦>" an increase of more than JO per went, over the prcreeding year in rhe area under cultivation, although the Nile"was one of the lowest ever known. The jewrney acre-ss the desert is ?n interesting one. The effect of sunset on i the vast stretch of sand, which at such a time »» transformed iat»> a lake ef gold, is something whi**b can only be seen in the Soudan. Twenty-three mites beyond Berber the Atbara River h reached over which the railway is carried by means of an iron bridge. Between the Atbara ard Shendi are the pyramids of Meroe. tombs of the rulers of the island of Meroe. Fifty mite* beyond Shendi begirt the sixth cataract, where the Nile at. the entrance ta thr gorge narrows down to a width of only 30ft yards, from this* point the fine runs Co Khartoum North, whence the traveller is ror*veye<( to the town across the river by a steamer m about j "titu-e;: ►-,tjr'*: ; tes. Kbar'ouni stands at I the.' eonßrwaee of the Blue Nrfe and | the White Nile, on the tongue of land i between the two river*. In the palace I of the t.iovernnr-dlenerat i?. what for i Kngtbhrncn is a ssacrrd spot, the room i which has been built into the new palace where Gordon met his death. I Among the sights are the cantonments where contingents of twenty .Soudanese tribes are encamped, so* that the curious may see them living under their own conditions the fierce Baggara Arabs, the ./satin, the cannibal Nyam Nayms and others. At Omdurman can be seen-* remains of the Mahdi's tomb. destroyed after the occupation, the Khalfa's house exactly as he left it, the great market, the Gebel Surgham. the hilt on which the Khalfa sat and watched the battle which broke up his power.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 135, 1 March 1909, Page 5
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441KHARTOUM. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 135, 1 March 1909, Page 5
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