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Arabia. When Negro Africa was first visited by civilised white 

 men, sav in the fifteenth century, there can have been but few 

 looms at work amongst the Negroes, except in the valley of the 

 Niger, and in Muhammadanised Senegambia, in Hausaland, and 

 Abyssinia (besides of course North Africa and Egypt). Four 



402. LARGE PIECE OF COTTON-STUFF WOVEN AND DYED 

 IN WESTERN LIBERIA, ALSO DRVM FROM WESTERN 

 LIBERIA 



hundred vears ago (except in the regions just mentioned), the 

 Neo;ro either went nude or covered or adorned himself with 

 dressed skins, with bark-cloth, with dried grass, leaves and palm 

 filaments. There may, of course, in the Hausa Sudan and the 

 valley of the Central Niger have been looms in existence before 



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