Africa of to-day . l in the grand plan of the Mitidji. Not only itsfields of waving oats, barley, and wheat, just ripening;not only its flax fields, in bluish bloom; not alone itsflowers and shrubs, two out of every three of which wehave seen in Corsica or in the Riviera; not alone itsyellow genista, a flower of Gascony, and from which thePlantagenets took their name — for they are Gascons,like the flowers; not alone the ferula, the camels, thedonkeys, all things please. The somewhat lengthyaccount of the Kabyles — or Kabail, as many ethnol-ogists and travellers contend the name should bewritt
Africa of to-day . l in the grand plan of the Mitidji. Not only itsfields of waving oats, barley, and wheat, just ripening;not only its flax fields, in bluish bloom; not alone itsflowers and shrubs, two out of every three of which wehave seen in Corsica or in the Riviera; not alone itsyellow genista, a flower of Gascony, and from which thePlantagenets took their name — for they are Gascons,like the flowers; not alone the ferula, the camels, thedonkeys, all things please. The somewhat lengthyaccount of the Kabyles — or Kabail, as many ethnol-ogists and travellers contend the name should bewritten — has been given because they are the mostinteresting of all the Northern Africa peoples. The Arabs of this section are, of course, the descend-ants of the two great incursions by those people fromtheir homeland in Arabia; the first — which has to domore particularly with Abyssinia and therefore comes inChapter X, Eastern Africa,—in the eighth century,and the second, which began in the eleventh. Of the. PEOPLES OF NORTHERN AFRICA 55 first it is unnecessary to speak here, for what is said ofthe Arabs now to be found applies with equal proprietyto all. There are plenty of these people to be seen inall parts of this Northern Africa, and they are especiallynumerous in Morocco and the southern part of Algeria;in both these States it is impossible to draw a line whichmarks off, even approximately, the Arabs of the recog-nised government districts and those in the free of the Arabs are cultivators of the soil and livepermanently in villages in the neighbourhood of towns;but by far the great majority of them, true to thosehabits which are an inheritance from ancestors in theremote past, have no fixed habitations and dwell in tents,which they move about from place to place as the fancystrikes them or as the exigencies of their pastoral lifedemand. The preponderating influence which the Arabsexert is indicated by the statement of Dr. Latham*that all which is not
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