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to the place prepared for it. Here it is placed ' in the hall or outer room of a 

 house which has been specially built for the purpose and . . . the . . . house 

 chapel — now consecrated by the spiritual presence, which has been previously 

 invoked a?id conjured into this special emblem — is daily swept and cleaned ' 

 (10, 162-164). 



To sum up : concerning the early prehistory of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 

 we have iio more than indications. In the Neolithic stage, which appears to 

 have persisted until a comparatively recent date, Negro influence, if not pre- 

 dominant over the whole area, was at least powerfully felt even in the 

 north, as is shown by the distribution of polished axe-heads. But against 

 this northward pressure must be set the continual extension of Egyptian 

 culture, the evidence for which may best be found in the eschatological ideas 

 and burial customs (' mummification ' and anthropoid coffins) of the 'peoples of 

 Equatoria. This influence, which seems to have persisted until mediajval times, 

 may have reached tropical Negroland as early as the Middle or even the. Old 

 Kingdom. Nor was the Nile route the only "one by which Egyptian influence 

 was spread. Anotlier and later drift extended westwards as shown by the 

 coinage of the north African States, which enables us to fix its date within 

 fairly precise limits. We do not know how far south this drift travelled, but 

 it seems certain that it reached at leflst as far as the Senegal River and the 

 great bend of the Niger. 



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