. 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. ve long heads,vertical jaws, regular features, and good figures ; and they are pleasantand hospitable. The women are said to keep their youthful appearance along time—a rare thing in Africa. Friction of the body, fumigation witharomatics, and anointing with fat, are much in vogue among people are even noted as skilful surgeons. The junction of the two Niles is the
. 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. ve long heads,vertical jaws, regular features, and good figures ; and they are pleasantand hospitable. The women are said to keep their youthful appearance along time—a rare thing in Africa. Friction of the body, fumigation witharomatics, and anointing with fat, are much in vogue among people are even noted as skilful surgeons. The junction of the two Niles is the seat of the populous town ofKhartoum, long an important place, where Turks, Egyptians, Arabs,Nubians, negroes, and Gallas met and trafficked. Soldiers,merchants, and slaves crowded its streets ; grain, cotton, gums,ivory, ebony, and ostrich feathers were exchanged for European has very considerably the appearance of an Egyptian city, with itsminarets and mosques and white-washed houses. Its disorganised anddegenerate state since the calamitous fate of Gordon, contrasted with itsimprovement when under his control, is sufficient proof of the great lossthe Soudan experienced when he was killed.
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