Africa, Vol. 1 of 4: History, Geography, and People (Classic Reprint)

THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS.
NORTH-EAST AFRICA.
CHAPTER I.
GENERAL SURVEY.
R03I the very uatno of Africa, it is evident that down to a comparatively recent period this continent still formed part of the unknown ?world. It was the Libya of the Greeks, a region of undefined limits towards the south and the setting sun. Amongst other mythological or poetic titles, they also gave it the vague designations of Eskhate, or " Tho World's End," and Ilcsperin.or ""Western Land," a term which was also applied to Italy, and then to Spain, and which, under the Arab form of ilaghrcb, has become the modem name of Mauritania. The term Africa itself, now applied to the wholo continent, ia of doubtful origin. Whether it designated the ancient Carthago in tho senso of the "Separated," or "Colony," recalling the supremacy of tho Phoenician Tyro, or whether it was a collective name of tho ]5crbcrs, or only of a single tribe, that of the Auraghcn or Aurigha, are questions that cannot n

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CONTENTS; chap- "ob; I, General Survey1; II The Nile Basin31; The Hirer, p 31 Lake Victoria Nyanza, p 35 The Somerset Nile, p 37 Lnko Albert NvnnzB, p 39 Tho Whito Nile, p 40 'J'ho Illua Nile, p 47 The Atbarn River, p 60 Tho Nubian Nile, p 62 Tho Lower Nile, p 57 The Fnyum Depression, p CO Periodical Kisiug of the Nile, p 69; III Beoion op the Gkeat Lakes? 74; Climate, Floro, Fauna, p 73 Inhabitants, p 76 The Ruanda Country, p 82 Tho Kmpiro of U-Gondn, p 82 Religion, Trado, Administration, p 86 Topography, p 8S-Tho Kavirondo and Nanda Countries, p 68- Tho U^Nyoro Territory, p 01; IV" Kecios- op the Upper Nile TiumTAtiiEs'95; Inhabitants, p 97 Tho Latnku Country, p 102 Topography, p 112; V Si'pat anu YaL RaSINS 116; The Gnmbil and Komn Tribes, p 110 The Shilluks, p 119 Topography, p- 1