Ohfer vat ions &c. 289 



Cuftoms, as w^re confequent upon thefe Invafions; thofe 

 Africans who retired to the Mountains and there formed them- 

 felves into Kabyllah [ J^•^:»] or Clans, may be fuppofed to have 

 been the leaft aifedled with thofe Novelties. It may be far- 

 ther urged, that as They would be hereby obliged to converfe 

 chiefly among themfelves,fo,for thefameReafon,they would con- 

 tinue to be much the famePeople,and, in all probability, preferve, 

 their Original Language without any confiderable Alteration. 

 But what this was, he muft be a very bold Conjeolurer who 

 can at this Diftance of Time pretend to afcertain. For indeed 

 it is fcarce conceivable but that the Carthaginians, who pof- 

 feiled all Africa ' from Cyrene to the Atlantic Ocean, muft, in 

 confequence of their many Conquefts and Colonies have infome 

 Meafure introduced their own Language, of which we have 

 a Specimen ^ in the Tanulus of Tlautus. And a ftill greater 

 Change muft it probably have fuffered from the fucceflive Ad- 

 miflion οι Romans and Vandals into thefe Countries. Thus much 

 however is certain that there is no Affinity at all betwixt.what may ^'^^^' "' ^'''" 

 be fuppofed to be, the pnmitive Words m the o/:;07i//^'/;' (as they Hebrew or 

 call this Language at prefent) and the Words which convey the 'rovg"^^- 

 fame Meaning in the Hehrew and Arabick Tongues. For 

 Thamurt ,ArghaZi Thamtuth, Agarum,Akfum &c. their Names 

 for Earthy a Man, a Woman, Bread, ΡΙββ 8cc. cannot, I pre- 

 fume, be any way related to the Orif;//^/ Languages. But the 

 Reader is referred to a Vocabulary of this Language, which is 

 inferted after the Excerpta. 



Having thus defcribed the different Habitations of thefe r^^ Hyke, 

 People, I ftiall now give an Account how they employ them- 

 felves in Them. Under this Head therefore will be comprifed 

 their Manufaftures, Habits and Manner of Living. Now the 

 chief Manufacture among the Kalyles and Arabs is the making 

 of H)>kes* ( as they call Woollen Blankets) and Webs of Goats 

 Hair for their Tents. The Women alone are employed in 

 this Work, as Andromache and Tenelope were of old, who 

 make no ufe of a Shuttle , but conduit every Thread of the 

 Woof with their Fingers. One of thefe HyheSy is ufually fix 



1 Vid. Boch. Chap, in Praefar. 2 Ibid. I. 2. cap. r. 5 The Language of the Moun- 

 taineers in S.W. BAxbarj is called 5fei///i^, differing in fomeWords from the Sbowiah ; but the 

 meaning of the Names I could never learn, unlefs perhaps they were called after fome con- 

 iiderable Clanswho might be cither the Authors or Coniervators of them. 4 Probably de- 

 rived from i^y »sk. texult 



Dddd Yards 



