Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . A Group of Nubians, in fact a f;roup of almost any sort of people from the north of the Dark Con-tinent, could be seen in the village known as a Street in Cairo. That was a sort of free for all place lorall classes of African population, white, brown or black. The specialty of this particular group seemsto be the coiffure. •». The Soudanese, among them a child, a lively imp of eighteen months who danced, were among theodd groups from far countries who added to the variety of the great Exposition. A careless, jolly lotwere the Soudanese, who w
Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . A Group of Nubians, in fact a f;roup of almost any sort of people from the north of the Dark Con-tinent, could be seen in the village known as a Street in Cairo. That was a sort of free for all place lorall classes of African population, white, brown or black. The specialty of this particular group seemsto be the coiffure. •». The Soudanese, among them a child, a lively imp of eighteen months who danced, were among theodd groups from far countries who added to the variety of the great Exposition. A careless, jolly lotwere the Soudanese, who were probably a great deal happier at the Fair than they were in their own•often-raided part of Africa.
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