The River War, Winston Churchill [e book reader .txt] 📗

avery of the aboriginals is outweighed by the intelligence of theinvaders and their superior force of character. During the secondcentury of the Mohammedan era, when the inhabitants of Arabia went forthto conquer the world, one adventurous army struck south. The firstpioneers were followed at intervals by continual immigrations of Arabsnot only from Arabia but also across the deserts from Egypt and Marocco.The element thus introduced has spread and is spreading throughout theSoudan, as water soaks into a dry sponge. The aboriginals absorbed theinvaders they could not repel. The stronger race imposed its customs andlanguage on the negroes. The vigour of their blood sensibly altered thefacial appearance of the Soudanese. For more than a thousand years theinfluence of Mohammedanism, which appears to possess a strangefascination for negroid races, has been permeating the Soudan, and,although ignorance and natural obstacles impede the progress of newideas, the whole of the black race is gradually ado