58 PRESENT CONDITIONS (No. 98 in memory of Charles George Gordon, is a handsome and substantial red -sandstone structure, eminently suited to cope with the exigencies of a tropical climate.

66 reserva (6) The Southern Sudan ; Christian Missions The religious and magical beliefs of the greater tribes of the southern Sudan ( especially the Barı, Burun , Dinka, Golo, Shilluk, and Zande) are of the greatest diversity and interest. Among these peoples the Government encourages Christian missions, and has allotted strict geographical limits or tions ” .to the different churches, viz.: ( 1 ) The Austrian Roman Catholic Mission (head quarters, Khartum ), west of a line drawn along the Bahr el -Ghazal to Meshra el-Rek, and thence to the Nile-Congo Divide . Stations at Lul and Tonga on the White Nile, Wau, Kyango, Mbili ( all in Bahr el-Ghazal province ) , and at Dilling (originally established 1874) . The Mission was temporarily suspended in 1916. ( 2 ) The Church Missionary Society, in the country east of the above line (from 1905 ) . Stations: two in Mongalla province and one at Yambio (Bahr el-Ghazal province ).

( 3 ) The American Mission to the Shilluk. Station : Doleib , on the Sobat ( founded 1902 ) . ( 4 ) Sudan United Mission to the Dinkas (founded 1913 ) . Station : Melut , east of the White Nile in Upper Nile province. The medical work of all these missions is productive of obviously good and immediate results. Actual con versions have hitherto been very few in number. The hope for the future resides with the children , and with the children only . The insistence on the duty of mono gamy is here, as in Uganda , a great hindrance to the spread of Christianity. Among the Zande a secret religious society, the Bir, with undesirable rites, con tinues to cause trouble.