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NOETH-EAST AFRICA. 



employment is stock-breeding and camel-driving. They keep camels, goats, and 

 sheep, but never horses. Pasture is available only during the winter rains, so that 

 in the dry season the herdsman has often to make long journeys to the hills in 



Fig. 103— Arab Tribes in Egypt. 

 Scale 1 : 6,000,000. 



£9" 



54'^ L '. of ureenwich 



126 Miles. 



search of fodder. He is occasionally even compelled to diminish his flocks or hire 

 himself out for a time to till the land in the Nile Valley, always returning to the 

 steppe when it is again clothed with verdure. Although all are excellent dromedary 

 riders, the people dwelling along the Nile arc now more frequently employed than 



