THE SUDAN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18676, 27 April 1926, Page 10

THE SUDAN.

INTERESTING LANTERN '' lecture. : Mr D. N. McDiarmid gave an interesting lantern-lecture in the Bt. Paul's evening. The lecture, which dealt with work among the people : 'in th# Eastern Bu4an, fras listened to with the greatest interest. ; Mr McDiarmid, introduced, iis lecture. bT throwing some Instructive mapa on the icreeh, showing the location and the 'Extent of the. Sudan. He said that Mohammedaniam. ora very degraded -type, was advancing rapidly into the ' heart' of Africa'. To meet this menace the Sudan' United. Million ■ wai foroi' ed. Tracing the journey to the eastern stations of the Mission, he showed that Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, wag now the port of entry to that part of the' Sudan. After the railway line and the Kile steamer had been left behind, the lecturer and his wife had to make a seventeen' days' journey by - camel transport to reach, their station in the mountains. Pictures of the .fltlds cultivated by the native people served to show that they were by no means a laty people. Artificial irrigation waa not 'required there, and the natives were entering very keenly on the cultivation of cotton, for which the country was well suited. Many pictures were shown of the curious mountain-Cut*, in which tho people live, for fear of the Moslem slave dealers, who until very recently habitually raided tb« Sudan. Now there was not one part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in which slave-raiding was carried on. The lecturer proceeded to give some description of the people and their customs. He quoted one or two incidents to show that Airica 'was still "dark" Africa. Residents in the region feared the white anta and their depredations more than alt the Hons and the leopards of that part. He briefly outlined the Industrial, medical, and evangelistic work of the mission. Although there was no doctor at Heiban station, they had to give between 8000 and 10,000 medical treatments there annually. At the close, the chairman expressed the thanks of the audience to Mr McDiarmid.