Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . d bring- the Semitic tribes into thesame country with the cognate Hamites,but it may be doubted whether the trueline of Ishmael was ever carried so farin that direction. If we attempt to trace the Hamitic dis-persion beyond the crossing- into Africa,Distribution of we shall find the migrationpursuing- the same generalcourse to the southwestwhich it had taken while in SouthernArabia. It appears that the peoples oft
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . d bring- the Semitic tribes into thesame country with the cognate Hamites,but it may be doubted whether the trueline of Ishmael was ever carried so farin that direction. If we attempt to trace the Hamitic dis-persion beyond the crossing- into Africa,Distribution of we shall find the migrationpursuing- the same generalcourse to the southwestwhich it had taken while in SouthernArabia. It appears that the peoples ofthis stock were thinly distributed from the Hamitic bloodin EasternAfrica. bearing- divisions of the Black races. Theancestors of the Hottentots and the Ne-groes made their way from the eastthrough this same region of Gallaland,and their migratory intersection with thesouth-bearing progress of the Hamiticfamily must have constituted one of theearliest, if not, indeed, the very first,contact of the Ruddy with the Blackraces of antiquity. Meanwhile Syria, almost directlywest from Chaldsea, had also been pre-occupied by Hamitic tribes. While themovement into the maritime parts of. DESERT COUNTRY OF THE SYRIAN Plain of Tortose.—Drawn by A. de Bar, from a photograph by Lockroy. strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, in the generaldirection of the Victoria Nyanza, andthat the westward progress of the Ham-itic race was finally checked in this re-gion. The Somalian peoples of theextreme eastern portion of Africa weredoubtless derived from a deflected branchof this Semito-Hamitic migration; and,in general, the Noachite races of Galla-land had the same origin. One peculiar feature of this Africandistribution of the Ruddv Crossing of the J ethnic lines in peoples from Arabia wasthefact that the lines of theirprogress to the southwest into the con-tinent must have crossed the westward- Arabia had been going on, another di-vision of the Hamitic stock had made itsway out of Mesopotamia to sy
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