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NORTH-WEST AFRICA.

difficult to get a living amongst the southern tribes, and the majority returned to sue for peace. The ringleaders of the insurrection belonged to the tribe of the Nefet.

Amongst the town Arabs, often spoken of as Moors, like their fellow-countrymen

Fig. 39. — Native Inhabitants of Tunis.

in the towns of Algeria and Marocco, the numerous ethnical elements of which they are composed have become so intimately intermingled that it is no longer possible to recognise them. Even the Moors who were driven out of Spain, some