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for the Negro to weave ? Though cotton in some species is 

 indigenous to the Dark Continent, the idea of cultivating, 

 spinning, and weaving cotton was introduceci by the Arabians 

 from India. The ancient Egyptians did not spin or weave 

 cotton, but flax, of which they made linen, and no linen has ever 



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been known or cultivated in Tropical Atrica south of the latitude 

 of Khartum. 



The whole of Nigeria and Senegambia being extremely well 

 adapted, so far as climate or soil were concerned, to the cultivation 

 of cotton, spinning and weaving rapidly spread as almost 

 national industries for Western Africa to the north of the Poorest 

 Zone. If, as is probable, there was no such art in existence in 

 these kingdoms of the Mandingo, Wolof, Songhai, and Hausa 



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