. The story of Africa and its explorers. s, or in the European colonies,are comparatively new-comers—inhabitants otSpain, Portugal, and other European countries,who were driven to take refuge in the Moslemcountries of northern Africa at the time the in ancientAfrica. 108 THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. Christian sovereigns and their subjects set sopoor an example of toleration by persecutingthe Mohammedans, whom they despised asfollowers of the false prophet. The advent of the greater number of theserefugees does not date more than four hun- o dred years back, and most of the Jews settledin the British c
. The story of Africa and its explorers. s, or in the European colonies,are comparatively new-comers—inhabitants otSpain, Portugal, and other European countries,who were driven to take refuge in the Moslemcountries of northern Africa at the time the in ancientAfrica. 108 THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. Christian sovereigns and their subjects set sopoor an example of toleration by persecutingthe Mohammedans, whom they despised asfollowers of the false prophet. The advent of the greater number of theserefugees does not date more than four hun- o dred years back, and most of the Jews settledin the British colonies, and many even inAlgeria, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco, have might readily be taken for the other in-habitants of the country. It is also notuncommon to come upon little tribes ofso-called Arabs, who in features and by thegossiping legends of the natives seemedwell established as the descendants of Jewswho adopted the faith of Islam at some timein the remote past. It is also affirmed that,covered by the sands of the desert, are. KEMAINS OP THE CISTERNS OF CAKTHAGE, WITH THE BTESA HILL. THE POET (COTHON), AND THE GULF ©F TUNIS, ETC., IN THE DISTANCE. (From a Pliotograph in the Paris-Tunis Collection.) been attracted thither within this in the interior of Morocco, in the AtlasMountains, in the depth of the province ofSus, and in the oases along the route fromMorocco to Timbuctoo, there have been, fromtime beyond which the memory of man doesnot extend, little colonies of Jews (Yol. I, ) who speak no other language thanArabic, or, in some cases, no tongue exceptBerber, and Avho, except for their markedfeatures and the religious fervour which theyhave maintained throughout all persecutions. tombstones with inscriptions in Hebrew char-acters, the remains of settlements of Avhichthe legend no lonofer exists. These early colonies of Jews must havebeen founded by emigrants from Palestine,and one can hardly doubt that, arriving asthey did long before the Arabs
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