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FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE 



by the device of a cross which the men still carry on their 

 clothes, knives and shields, and the women on their orna- 



OBnSADER S ARMOUB. TAKEN FROM THE TUAEEGS 



ments ; in much the same way as the Moslem emblem of the 

 crescent has become incorporated in the arms of descendants 

 of the crusaders. And the Tuaregs still possess ancient 

 coats of mail that their ancestors took from the Crusaders. 



