Africa . private and individual property is recognised, hereincontrasting favourably with the Bedouins, with whom allis held in common. The name itself (from Kbila - union)means strictly speaking a man of social habits. Theirreligion is void of fanaticism, and, brave warriors them-selves, they have ever remained the irreconcileable foes ofthe Arabs. (Henri Aucapitaine, Les Kabyles et la Coloni-sation ale V Alger ie: Paris et Algier, 1864, pp. 7-32.) In Algeria they number probably some 500,000, andthere can be no doubt that the future of north Africa is 58 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. i
Africa . private and individual property is recognised, hereincontrasting favourably with the Bedouins, with whom allis held in common. The name itself (from Kbila - union)means strictly speaking a man of social habits. Theirreligion is void of fanaticism, and, brave warriors them-selves, they have ever remained the irreconcileable foes ofthe Arabs. (Henri Aucapitaine, Les Kabyles et la Coloni-sation ale V Alger ie: Paris et Algier, 1864, pp. 7-32.) In Algeria they number probably some 500,000, andthere can be no doubt that the future of north Africa is 58 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. in their hands. The European colonisers will before allthings have to gain over this hitherto neglected Berberelement of the population by again reinstating them intheir rightful possession of the plains, whence they wereoriginally expelled by the Arab invaders of the country. TUNIS. CHAPTER V. THE REGENCY OFTUNIS. 1. Government—Population—Arabs,Berbers, Jews. Tunis, the smallestof the three states in. TUX IS JEWS. 60 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AXD TRAVEL. the western part of North Africa, presents no materialdifference from the neighbouring Algeria either in itsphysical aspect or the. elements of which its populationis composed. Politically acknowledging a loose and almostnominal dependence on the Porte, the country is governedby the so-called Bey, who administers it with great com-placency entirely to his own personal advantage. From 1575 onward Tunis has been under the sove-reignty of Turkey; but by a firman of October 1871 theSultan relinquished the ancient right of tribute over to this edict the present situation of Tunis isas follows :—The Bey receives investiture from Constanti-nople, and may neither make war, nor conclude treatiesof peace, nor cede any portion of his territory, without theauthorisation of the Sultan. He is obliged to coin moneywith the name of the Sultan, and to place his troops atthe disposal of the Porte in case of war. But in theinteri
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