. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. origin may havebeen Semitic, but conquered successively byCarthaginians, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandalsand Arabs, the Berber of today represents acomposite of all of them. His most interest-ing industrial product is a peculiar and highlyvarnished red and yellow pottery, decoratedwith traditional Roman and Phoeniciandesigns. These strange folks, probably the primevalrace of North Africa, now have their habitatin the great stretch of snow mountains whosedim outline may occasionally, and for a fewelusive moments, be seen fr
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. origin may havebeen Semitic, but conquered successively byCarthaginians, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandalsand Arabs, the Berber of today represents acomposite of all of them. His most interest-ing industrial product is a peculiar and highlyvarnished red and yellow pottery, decoratedwith traditional Roman and Phoeniciandesigns. These strange folks, probably the primevalrace of North Africa, now have their habitatin the great stretch of snow mountains whosedim outline may occasionally, and for a fewelusive moments, be seen from Algiers, abovethat of the nearer mountains, which is aneveryday sight. Seeing the mountains ofKabylia from Algiers is like viewing theJungfrau from Interlaken, or Mt. Ranierfrom Seattle — sometimes you may see themand again, if your time be limited, you maynot. They tell us that mountains have morethan once saved a race from absorption orextinction. The heights of Kabylia mightfurnish another proof of this statement. TheBerber, once ruler of all he surveyed in North. 14 UNDER THE CRESCENT Africa, was long ago pushed back into thesemountain fastnesses by the Arab yielding under vigorous protest tothe demand which eventually attached himto the wheels of Frances victorious charioton its way through North Africa, he continuesto build his house of sun-baked clay in hismountain stronghold, speak his own languageand retain his own character and ways, whichare not at all those of his Arab compared with the Arabs, the Berberswith their fair complexions, blue eyes andred hair are more physically fit, more capableand far more progressive. THE CROSS BEFORE THE CRESCENT Some scholars hold that the Berbers atthe time of the Arab invasion were at leastnominal Christians. They point out in proofof their view the fact that many Berberwomen wear the sign of the cross tattooedupon their foreheads between the eyes, whilethe men wear it upon their arms and in thep
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