CARPENTER’S
WORLD TRAVELS
Familiar Talks About Countries
and Peoples
WITH THE AUTHOR ON THE SPOT AND
THE READER IN HIS HOME, BASED
ON THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
MILES OF TRAVEL
OVER THE GLOBE
CAIRO TO KISUMU
EGYPT—THE SUDAN—KENYA COLONY
ON THE GREAT ASWAN DAM
“The dam serves also as a bridge over the Nile. I crossed on a car, mymotive power being two Arab boys who trotted behind.”
CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS
CAIRO TO KISUMU
Egypt—The Sudan—Kenya
Colony
BY
FRANK G. CARPENTER
LITT.D., F.R.G.S.
WITH 115 ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
AND TWO MAPS IN COLOUR
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
FRANK G. CARPENTER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
In the publication of this book on Egypt, the Sudan,and Kenya Colony, I wish to thank the Secretary ofState for letters which have given me the assistanceof the official representatives of our government inthe countries visited. I thank also our Secretary ofAgriculture and our Secretary of Labour for appointingme an Honorary Commissioner of their Departments inforeign lands. Their credentials have been of the greatestvalue, making available sources of information seldomopen to the ordinary traveller. To the British authoritiesin the regions covered by these travels I desire to expressmy thanks for exceptional courtesies which have greatlyaided my investigations.
I would also thank Mr. Dudley Harmon, my editor, andMiss Ellen McBryde Brown and Miss Josephine Lehmannfor their assistance and coöperation in the revision of thenotes dictated or penned by me on the ground.
While most of the illustrations are from my own negatives,these have been supplemented by photographsfrom the Publishers’ Photo Service and the Am