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NOETH-EAST AFEICA. 



develop his projects during the past twenty years free from the danger of inter- 

 ference from foreign states. 



In accepting their religion from the Arabs the Egyptians have also, notwith- 

 standing their great numerical superiority, adopted the language of their con- 



Fig. 105. — Eeligioxs of Egypt. 

 Scale t : 6,000,000. 



BawUi 



.Farafrah 





El Baramous q«. 

 Oer es-Souriani ^ 



Der el Abou Maka 



Medlnet eI-ra_youm ^^DeiVBaTad 

 Bibbeh ' 



Mimeh 



lAanfalout 



. Kasr-Dakhel 



Galnmgtfn 



L . oT L^'-eenwc^i 



• Towns where the Copts and other Christians are numerous. 



Û Coptic monasteries. The names of Senusi communities are unierlined. 



120 Miles. 



querors. Arabic is spoken with purity in Egypt, and the University of El-Azhar 

 at Cairo is even one of the places where are discussed and regulated the most 

 delicate questions of Arabic grammar and literature. The only differences 

 between the local idiom and that current in Hejaz are the use of a few Coptic and 

 Turkish terms, and a peculiar manner of pronouncing certain letters of the 



