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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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the AfricanHamites made their way to the west,through Barca and Tripoli, into the an-cient state of Africa Proper, and thenceinto Mauritania, and finally to the ex-treme west. This region, thus peopled in the pre-historic ages, became one of the mostimportant of the subsequent historicalcountries. The ancient states along thesouthern shores of the Mediterranean DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—HAMITIC MIGRATIONS. 459 never attained—with the exception ofEgypt—the power and importance ofRank and char- those situated on the north- KS£22 ern TOasts> but they cachedand peoples. a considerable degree of development, and were able to competewith the Mediterranean peninsular pow-ers for the mastery of the west. Funda- stream flowed still further to the south.It may also be noted that the seafaringSemitic Phoenicians who passed west-ward through the Southern Mediterra-nean skirted the coast of Africa, andtouched the islands rather than estab-lished colonies or built states on themainland.
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TUNISIAN COAST.—Gulf of Hammamet.—Drawn by Eugene Girardet, after a sketch ofSaladin. mentally, the people of the North Afri-can provinces were Hamitic in theirorigin. It is true, as we shall see here-after, that parallel streams of a differentrace descent were at a subsequent timeled westward through the same region.But the Brown race division of mankindcarried its migration toward the Atlanticon the southern slope of the NorthAfrican mountains, while the Semitic The main stream of Hamitic migrationmay be said to have reached its terminuswith the Atlantic, or at TheHamitesleast with the islands west ™™tbJvoldof Morocco. It is believed the sea.that the original tribes inhabiting theCanary islands were the westernmost dis-persion of the human race, so far as theHamitic migration from the east wasconcerned. As a rule, the Hamites no- 460 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. where took to the sea. They were aland people, and while preferring thecoast regions of the ancient world, theyavoided

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