. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. the Hamites,and probably related to the ancient Egypt-ians, are the main and original inhabitants of Northern Africa, represent-ing those whom the Romans called Numidians, and whosenomad habits they described. From the name Berber wasderived the term Barbary, formerly given to North-west Africa. Inmany parts they are much mixed with Arabs, who came as Mahometaninvaders. At le
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. the Hamites,and probably related to the ancient Egypt-ians, are the main and original inhabitants of Northern Africa, represent-ing those whom the Romans called Numidians, and whosenomad habits they described. From the name Berber wasderived the term Barbary, formerly given to North-west Africa. Inmany parts they are much mixed with Arabs, who came as Mahometaninvaders. At least two-thirds of the inhabitants are Berbers, though inthe North they are usually called Kabyles. Probably it may in the futurebe proved that the Iberians extended into Northern Africa, and contri-buted to form the Berber type. These people are divided into a greatmany tribes, continually at war with one another, and further distractedby family feuds. In many parts they can be clearly distin- physicalguished from Arabs by their wider and fuller faces, less regular , more arched eyebrows, more sparkling eyes, and somewhatlighter hair. The nose is rarely aquiline and is often large and short, the. BERBER WOMAN. The Berbers, 55° THE INHABITANTS OF AFRICA. Mixed origin. cliin prominent, the mouth rather large and thick-lipped. They havealso much more gaiety, dash, and enterprise, and are more frank. After careful study, it appears that the Berbers themselves are muchmixed, including people of very different height, conformation of Hmbs,form of skull, and colour of hair and skin. Even fair and red-skinned people may be found in the North, while the majorityare of a brown complexion and colour. Some have even blue descendants of the Romans may be found at Tebesra in Algiers,calling themselves so, although being Mahometans by religion. On thewhole, we may describe the population of Northern Africa as derived from Italian, Spanish, Asiatic,Egyptian, an
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