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THE ATLANTICS OR BERBERS. 



On th i 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 Roman history, cele- 

 brated for the small and active horses which the warriors 

 rode without saddle or bridle, guiding 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 evanescent to have passed away into Negro 

 tribes, since the supremacy of the Arabians became estab- 

 lished. 



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 occupy 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, 

 tribes speaking the Showiah language, which is believed to 

 contain a considerable quantity of Numidian roots. There 

 are other Berber tribes, that are miners, and manufacturers of 

 gun-powder, gun-barrels, knives, black soap, &c. These are 

 again referred to the Numidian people, passing gradually 



