NIGER TO NILE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 710, 8 January 1910, Page 15

NIGER TO NILE.

i , *; a^Rßi^j>OTE^ffiNCE:lNxtv: : ■;ii>f: ;; :rT CENTRiL]; &JWGiLy^~<f} ; 'f. Particulars Wβ been received by .'Reuter's ■ Acenoy of the remarkable jonrney irom-the Niger: to ..thev-Nile on which J)r". Karl ' Kumm,; general secretary •ot the , Sudan 'United.Missions has-, been- engaged 1 - 6ioce October, of 1908. A.: month" ago : a telegram announced the .myeler s arrival nt" Wau, ih th'e.;;Bahr-el-Ghazel. ■ In a letter. dated from Wau on. ;■ October U Dr. Kumm gives-particulars of the great- difficulties he. : encountered- in traversing that were -of such.*-a" character . that the .explorer '■: was on more'.. than ono almost' giving,* up ;the-:.attem.pt.l : ... lhe hardships endured were terrible, his oxen succumbed and some,of the}'caravan"were 'reduced; to living on-leaves- and roots, and even.boiled leather;; ■ ... 1 ... ; ■■„;. Leaving Fort' Archainbault,, in-_ the French..Congo,, on' July;--10 Dr.: '■ Kumm spent nineteenidaye on the;road to JNdele Benussi, which 1 Consisted of s*amps three feot deep. TheiSonussi fortunately proved friendly, and provided the explorer with an escort. On-leaving Ndele, he was.also accompanied'by a" few white men. inese, hbwever, soon turned back, in presence of- the great, hardships of the voyage.; Dr. Kumin and his',party spent 25 days in traversing' nnexplored;territory. ■'.■.;:• Tho expedition has, ;n audition to the iaissi6nary -work, resulted -in the opening of A new ■■■ high • road across i- the : Sudan, obtaining valuable inf6rmation about the ■ frontier . line ■ between. Islam''.* and' paganism, and the opening of new French' and ■British Government posts to interceptand cut off the. last great high "road for.the slave, traffic; ..'-.■'. .■'..>' l ".- ":■; ;*■;.. ;*' ; -