LSE4329744 Shillouk village, in the vicinity of Fachoda (Sudan), the inhabitants with bodies covered with ashes or dung, gather every night in a circular space in the center of the village, squatting on beef skins, smoking in huge clay pipes, around a trunk or hang drums intended to warn the neighboring villages in case d\'alerte, engraving after Maillard\'s drawing, illustrating the voyage to the heart of Africa, in 1868-1871, by Dr. Georges Schweinfurth, published in ??????Le tour du monde??????1874, edited by Edouard Charton, Hachette edition, Paris. Selva Collection. by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Shillouk village, in the vicinity of Fachoda (Sudan), the inhabitants with bodies covered with ashes or dung, gather every night in a circular space in the center of the village, squatting on beef skins, smoking in huge clay pipes, around a trunk or hang drums intended to warn the neighboring villages in case d\'alerte, engraving after Maillard\'s drawing, illustrating the voyage to the heart of Africa, in 1868-1871, by Dr. Georges Schweinfurth, published in ??????Le tour du monde??????1874, edited by Edouard Charton, Hachette edition, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.