Note 8 — Chapter II · SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS
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The population of my own tiny village well illustrates the cosmopolitan nature of all commercial and administrative activity in the Sudan; including Government employés we have:
British: one, myself.
Syrians: two, my assistant and a carpenter.
Italian: one, engineer—we communicate in Arabic.
Egyptians: about six.
Arabians: also about six, including natives of Sinai in the north and the Yemen and Hadramaut in the south.
Hamites: the natives of the country.
Negroes: these include several distinct nationalities, e.g. Nubas and Nilotic tribes.
Swahili: one, from Zanzibar.
Elsewhere Greeks abound, as in so many countries.
We all speak Arabic, which was however the mother tongue of only a dozen individuals, and even these speak three or four different dialects!