Geography and Travels, 543 
secuted race, dwelling in towns among the fastnesses of the 
i The next people visited, the Mokorikori, 
resemble the Mashona. Among the Senga, the women perforate 
the upper lip, placing therein a ring of ivory or wood, called the 
Jaga. By constantly enlarging this, they succeed in making the 
lip project two and a half inches, 
ete, a flourishing Portuguese town in Livingstone’s time, is 
now half ruined, for the elephant has retreated to the far interior, 
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and the ivory trade is small. l 
After leaving Tete, Mr. Kerr was deserted by his followers 
and left alone among a tribe of kidnappers of mixed Zulu and 
Chopetta origin. The king has absolute power; executions are 
frequent, and nameless cruelties general. It might have fared ill 
with the traveler had it not been for a Portuguese hunter. 
: At length Lake Nyassa was reached, at the mission station of 
s Livingstonia. The station was deserted, and the Ajawas, who * 
remained with the traveler, would not risk their boats on the 
Shiré, After sixteen days in a deserted hut, he was rescued by M. 
A Giraud, then on his way to the coast. 
: „ake Nyassa is many feet lower than in 1859, and the Shiré is 
diminishing in volume. 
he Berbers —M. Foncin (Revue de Geographic, Fevrier, 1886) 
i Se that the Berbers are the predominating race in Algeria. 
i eios, Carthaginians and Romans have disappeared, and oc- 
000 strong, and Berberized Arabs, about 800,000 strong. Moors, t 
negroes are few and are becoming fewer, but Jews in- 
: The Berbers are often nomads, and were so in the time of 
y The sedentary tribes are the Kabyles of the mountains east of 
: * Songer the natives of the Dahra, the Traras and Little Kabylia, 
Al. Aurasians of the Aurès, the highest mountain mass of 
as pew apd the Ksourians or natives of the oases of the Algerian 
z Berbers uding the people of Mzab. The Tuareg are — a 
| hd Congo—M. de Brazza thus summarizes the results of his -~ 
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