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APPENDIX. 

 No. 2. 



According to information obtained from Has- 

 souna d^GhieSjwho was formerly prime minister 

 in Tripoli^ a race of men^ not inferior to the 

 Patagonians in bulk and stature exists in the 

 northern part of Africa^ bordering upon the 

 Sahara or great desert. 



They ride upon dromedaries of great swift- 

 nesSj and are capable of enduring prodigious 

 extremes of abstinence and fatigue. They live 

 chiefly on barley paste^ moistened with camePs 

 milk_, and use no fermented liquor. Their 

 strength is in proportion to their size. Like 

 several of the South American indigenes^ they 

 retain all their vigour at a period when men in 

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