. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . Aptian flagsare used together, and the supreme military and civil command is vestedin a governor-general, who is appointed by the khedive on the recommenda-tion of the British government, and who cannot be removed without theBritish governments consent. So far the arrangement has worked governor-general, Sir Reginald Wingate, in his report dated Khartum,January 30th, 1901, after giving an account of the progress m
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . Aptian flagsare used together, and the supreme military and civil command is vestedin a governor-general, who is appointed by the khedive on the recommenda-tion of the British government, and who cannot be removed without theBritish governments consent. So far the arrangement has worked governor-general, Sir Reginald Wingate, in his report dated Khartum,January 30th, 1901, after giving an account of the progress made, says: Icannot close this report without recording my appreciation of the manner inwhich officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers, and officials—British,Egyptian, and Sudanese, without distinction—have laboured during the pastyear to push on the work of regenerating the country. Nor can I pass overwithout mention the loyal and valuable assistance I have received frommany of the local ulemas, .sheikhs, and notables, who have displayed a mostgenuine desire to see their country once more advancing in the paths ofprogress and material and moral CHAPTER IISMALL STATES OF NORTHERN AFRICA The Berbers Northern Africa, between the Mediterranean and the waste expanse ofthe desert of Sahara, is Hke an island. It is properly Africa minor; it isAfrica proper, for the name of Africa (Afrikia among the Arabs), appliedfirst to the land of the Carthaginians—to the present Tunis—has been ex-tended over the whole continent. It is called also Barbary, because theoriginal race which dominated the country before all the foreign occupations—Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Arabian—was called that of the Berbers. Itis an established fact that that race has been in possession of northern Africafrom prehistoric times; in the fifth century before our era it was describedby Herodotus with the characteristic traits and the ethnical names which arestill recognisable, and all anc
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