Word: yakouba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago Traveler Seabrook told the U. S. something about Timbuctoo's No. 1 Citizen. Père Yakouba; last week he published the old man's informal but official biography. Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career. Devout Catholics will read it, if at all, as a warning; plain readers, as vicarious adventure...
...Adventure tells of a flight across the Sahara, from Paris to Timbuctoo and back. Seabrook wanted to go to Timbuctoo to see Pére Yakouba. famed renegade French priest (their first meeting is described in Jungle Ways). Flight Captain Rene Wauthier of the French Army, then on furlough, offered to fly him there in his plane. Third member of the party was Marjorie Worthington, U. S. writer. In luxurious comfort they slid down across France, bumped over the Pyrenees, skimmed the Mediterranean. North Africa looked much like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays...
...through the clay subsoil by no one knows whom, have to be cleared periodically and for this have manholes 50 ft. apart. Seabrook went down one of these fougaras and crawled painfully a quarter-mile, was glad to emerge muddily into sunlight again. Seabrook called on Pére Yakouba, quickly finished his business, then plunged into Timbuctoo night life. Very soon all three decided the social pace there was too fast for them, moved on to get away from cocktails and all-night parties. On their leisurely way back Wauthier and Seabrook joined in a hunt for missing French...