A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races

Name: A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races
Author: Johnston, Harry

Johnston, Harry

Africa -- Colonization; Africa -- Discovery and exploration

The invidious analogy of the Royal Niger Company was soon
      afterwards disposed of by its charter being redeemed for £900,000,
      and the Niger being thrown open to general trade.

Footnote 132:

      Major Lamy was killed in the battle which also cost Rabah his
      life.

Footnote 133:

      At the end of the 18th century there was born at Mostaganem in
      West Algeria from an Arab family in that place, Muhammad-bin-Ali,
      further named As-Sanusi (Senussi), after a celebrated saint of
      Tlemsan. He went as a young man to Mekka, and there achieved a
      reputation for holiness and learning. Here also he made the
      acquaintance of Muhammad Sharif, a negro prince from Wadai, who
      afterwards became Sultan of that country. In the middle of the
      19th century As-Sanusi returned to N. Africa and settled in the
      Cyrenaica, but finding the Turks suspicious he changed his
      head-quarters to Jaghbub in 1860, just inside the Egyptian
      borders, thirty miles from Siwa. Here he died soon after his
      arrival, and as a religious leader he was succeeded by his second
      son, Al-Mahdi. Al-Mahdi Senussi II renewed the relations with
      Wadai, where his father’s sect numbered many adherents, and in the
      last quarter of the 19th century removed his head-quarters to Al
      Jof in the Kufra oasis, midway between Cyrenaica and the Sudan.
      Senussi refused to countenance the revolt of the Mahdi in the
      Egyptian Sudan, but between 1899-1902 interfered strenuously in
      the Central Sudan to prevent the advance of the French, especially
      towards Kanem and Wadai. But his efforts were fruitless, and he
      died in or near Wadai in 1902. His nephew and successor, Senussi
      III, wandered about for some time in the borderland between Wadai
      and Kordofan, and finally betook himself to the Kufra oasis in the
      Libyan desert, where he now resides. The Senussiites profess a
      purified form of the Muhammadan faith, are rigid abstainers from
      alcohol and tobacco, but are above all an honest, industrious
      folk, who have done much of late years to improve the conditions
      of life in the Saharan and Libyan oases.




                               CHAPTER X

                           CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

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A history of the colonization of Africa by alien racesJohnston, Harry

History

A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races

Johnston, Harry

Africa -- Colonization; Africa -- Discovery and exploration

The invidious analogy of the Royal Niger Company was soon
      afterwards disposed of by its charter being redeemed for £900,000,
      and the Niger being thrown open to general trade.

Footnote 132:

      Major Lamy was killed in the battle which also cost Rabah his
      life.

Footnote 133:

      At the end of the 18th century there was born at Mostaganem in
      West Algeria from an Arab family in that place, Muhammad-bin-Ali,
      further named As-Sanusi (Senussi), after a celebrated saint of
      Tlemsan. He went as a young man to Mekka, and there achieved a
      reputation for holiness and learning. Here also he made the
      acquaintance of Muhammad Sharif, a negro prince from Wadai, who
      afterwards became Sultan of that country. In the middle of the
      19th century As-Sanusi returned to N. Africa and settled in the
      Cyrenaica, but finding the Turks suspicious he changed his
      head-quarters to Jaghbub in 1860, just inside the Egyptian
      borders, thirty miles from Siwa. Here he died soon after his
      arrival, and as a religious leader he was succeeded by his second
      son, Al-Mahdi. Al-Mahdi Senussi II renewed the relations with
      Wadai, where his father’s sect numbered many adherents, and in the
      last quarter of the 19th century removed his head-quarters to Al
      Jof in the Kufra oasis, midway between Cyrenaica and the Sudan.
      Senussi refused to countenance the revolt of the Mahdi in the
      Egyptian Sudan, but between 1899-1902 interfered strenuously in
      the Central Sudan to prevent the advance of the French, especially
      towards Kanem and Wadai. But his efforts were fruitless, and he
      died in or near Wadai in 1902. His nephew and successor, Senussi
      III, wandered about for some time in the borderland between Wadai
      and Kordofan, and finally betook himself to the Kufra oasis in the
      Libyan desert, where he now resides. The Senussiites profess a
      purified form of the Muhammadan faith, are rigid abstainers from
      alcohol and tobacco, but are above all an honest, industrious
      folk, who have done much of late years to improve the conditions
      of life in the Saharan and Libyan oases.




                               CHAPTER X

                           CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races

A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races

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