3-074-793 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in the Soudan: Khartoum, the Capital of the Soudan: Principal Square, with residence of the Mudir, or Egyptian Governor, 1883. 'Khartoum, the capital of the Soudan, a city of 40,000 inhabitants, is shown in one of our Illustrations, from a Sketch by M. Géroire, who visited those parts on a scientific expedition. This Sketch gives a view of the public place in front of the Government offices and residence of the Mudir, but most of the streets are narrow and crooked; there are one or two buildings of stone, among which is the French Roman Catholic Mission house, with its church and schools, and several others decently constructed of brick; a Coptic church, a commodious mosque, military barracks and arsenal, a hospital and the residences of a very few European merchants; but the general aspect of the town is mean and squalid...Books on the Soudan are likely to be in request just now; and we can recommend to perusal one published by Mr. Murray this week, from which we are permitted to borrow four Illustrations. The author, Mr. F. L. James, F.R.G.S., with his two brothers and three or four other gentlemen, spent four months, December to April, 1882, in an East African sporting expedition'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.