538 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 



3. Thereupon followed the invasion of the blonds from northern 

 Europe who, though completely assimilating with the Kabyles, set- 

 tled chiefly upon the heights of the Atlas, where they have preserved 

 the purity of their race to the present day. 



4. There followed then the invasions of historic times : The Pheni- 

 cian, Greek, Eoman, Jewish, Vandal, Byzantine, Arabic, Turkish, 

 Spanish, and French. 



In the face of all these invasions, the Kabyles on the heights of the 

 Eif, the Jurjura, the Aures, and in Enfida have preserved the purity 

 of their race to the present day. 



