STATE OF AFRICA. 
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the Arabs are attached, with bigotted zeal, to the " fj 
Mussulman tenets. 
These, which form the mass of the population of 
Barbary, are all aboriginal races. The mountains 
and deserts to the south harbour a number of 
tribes, whose native valour and inaccessible abodes 
have enabled them to preserve their distinct cha- 
racter and original institutions. The Brebes or 
Brebers occupy the larger portion of the chain of 
the Atlas. The Errifi, who inhabit the mountains 
between Algiers and Morocco, and the Shelluhs, 
who occupy the southern part of the latter empire, 
appear to be merely branches of the same race. It 
reappears in Nubia, where it borders on Egypt, 
and where the Barabras, or Berberins seem merely 
a branch of the Brebers. To these we may add 
the Tibbo and the Tuarick, who inhabit so large 
a portion of the African desert. The radical iden- 
tity of all these tribes seems established by Ade- 
lung, * from the use of merely different dialects of 
the same language, doubtless one of the most an- 
cient in existence. The little that is known of the 
Tibbo and Tuarick will be found in our analysis 
of the journal of Horneman. The Brebers are a 
brave and hardy people. Their villages occupy 
the declivities and the deep valleys of the Atlas* 
They exhibit the only example to be found in Bar- 
* Mithridates, oder Allgemeine Sprachenkunde, B. IIL 
