. Review of reviews and world's work . A BERBliR FROM TUXISIAN-TRIPOUTANIAN FRONTIER A SHEIKH OF THE BROTHERUOOD OF THE SENUSSIYEH(Engaged in the caravan trade between Wadai and Tripoli) grinding the grain in true Eastern fashionbetween the upper and the nether the narrow Strada della Marinapast the custom-house, where the slovenlyTurkish sentry peers at you suspiciously;past the odorous fish-market, and so into theunpaved, unlighted, foul-smelling quarterof the Jews, and your path will be blockedeventually by the sole remaining relic ofTripolis one-time greatness, the marble
. Review of reviews and world's work . A BERBliR FROM TUXISIAN-TRIPOUTANIAN FRONTIER A SHEIKH OF THE BROTHERUOOD OF THE SENUSSIYEH(Engaged in the caravan trade between Wadai and Tripoli) grinding the grain in true Eastern fashionbetween the upper and the nether the narrow Strada della Marinapast the custom-house, where the slovenlyTurkish sentry peers at you suspiciously;past the odorous fish-market, and so into theunpaved, unlighted, foul-smelling quarterof the Jews, and your path will be blockedeventually by the sole remaining relic ofTripolis one-time greatness, the marble archof triumph erected by the Romans in thereign of Antoninus Pius, now, half-buried indebris, its chiseled boasts of victory muti-lated, and its arches ruthlessly plastered up, 568 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. A STREET IX THE JEWISH QUARTER, TRIPOLI the shop of a dealer in dried fish. In that de-faced and degraded memorial is typified thelatter-day history of Tripolitania. By longodds the most interesting of the citys sights,however, are the markets, which are held uponthe beach on the arrival of the trans-Saharancaravans, for they afford the foreigner fleet-ing but characteristic glimpses, as thoughon a moving-picture screen, of those strangeand savage peoples—Berbers, Hausas, Tua-regs, Tubbas, and Wadaians—who are re-treating farther and farther into the recessesof the continent before the white man. All down the ages Trijioli has been thegateway through which weapons, cutler)-,and cotton have entered, and slaves, ostrichfc:>.thers, and ivory have come out of innerAfrica by plodding caravan. Since the sonsof Ham first found their way across thewilderness of Shur, this region has been theterminus of three historic trade routes. Thefirst of these runs due south across the desertto La
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