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NATURAL HISTORY OF 



THE ATLANTICS OR BERBERS. 



ON the north of Africa many wanderers landed from 

 the sea, and migrators from the. valley of the Nile 

 were pushed onwards over the Nubian high land. 



THE NUMIDIANS. 



ONE of these seems to have reached that region 

 rather late, if they already possessed horses at the 

 time of their arrival, and were the Numidians of Ro- 

 man history, celebrated for the small and active horses 

 which the warriors rode without saddle or bridle, guid- 

 ing them with a rod, or at best with a rope passed 

 round the lower jaw. But we take them to have been 

 a distinct and later invasion, and sufficiently evanes- 

 cent, to have passed away into Negro tribes, since 

 the supremacy of the Arabians became established. 



THE AMAZIGH 



Or Berbers, properly so called, extending from the Nile 

 to the Atlantic, are now under the name of Shelluhs, 

 most numerous in the glens of Atlas, where they oc- 

 cupy villages in the south and east of Morocco, with 

 habits not totally lawless nor inhospitable. But several 

 of the tribes differ greatly from them, such as the 

 Errifi of the province of Rif, who are among the most 

 ferocious of human beings, and the Kabyles, Koubals, 



