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DR. KARL KUMM (whom, from the indirect statements made in his book, we take to be of Swiss origin, and who now seems to be for all practical.purposes an Englishman) assisted to found the Sudan United Mission in 1907–8. This mission was expressly intended to work in the Nigerian and Egyptian Sudan to counteract the Moslem advance, and Christianise the pagan tribes of negroes not as yet influenced by the Muhammadan religion. His previous acquaintance with Africa (according to the statements made in his “exordium”) has been considerable. In 1899 he had visited “the southern oases of the Libyan Desert,” and had travelled a considerable distance on the way to Darfur. In 1901 he travelled in Nubia. In 1904 he journeyed from Tripoli southwards into the mountainous region north of Fezzan and studied the Hausa language. In 1904-5 he led an expedition of investigation into northern Nigeria. In the two following years he visited America and South Africa to arouse interest in his mission and secure data as to the advance of Islam in the direction of the Zambezi. On his return from South Africa he visited Portuguese East Africa, Mombasa, and made a hasty journey to Uganda.
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"From Hausaland to Egypt, through the Sudan". By Dr. H. Karl W. Kumm . Pp. xiv+324. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 16s. net.
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JOHNSTON, H. From the Niger to the Nile Across Africa 1 . Nature 86, 213–215 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086213b0
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