The trip to the zoo ended the first day of their three-day sightseeing itinerary, which included a ‘grand tour’ of Khartoum and Omdurman and visits to a model dairy farm, the Sudan Light and Power Company’s Power House and water treatment plant, the armoury, the aerodrome, and the palace. Corfield, who accompanied the chiefs, wrote ‘one chief came up to me and said that he was certain it was not an animal although he could not explain what it was’. ‘The kangaroo completely defeated them’, F. In August, 1933, twenty-eight Nuer chiefs from the borderlands of South Sudan and Ethiopia, together with some of their wives, a ‘Leopard Skin Chief’, and four chiefs’ police, visited the Khartoum zoological gardens, where they fed sugar to Rudolph, the hippopotamus, and saw the lion and the kangaroo. The Story Of Fergie Bey (Macmillan, 1930), p. Download the paper here or read it on the Journal of Tourism History website
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