This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...was swept away by the Arab conquest, and a night of more than a thousand years settled down upon Africa. History, which has to tell of such destroyers of mankind as Gengis Khan and Tamerlane, has on its bloody roll the name of no one who was a greater curse to the human race than the warrior who lies buried here. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...was swept away by the Arab conquest, and a night of more than a thousand years settled down upon Africa. History, which has to tell of such destroyers of mankind as Gengis Khan and Tamerlane, has on its bloody roll the name of no one who was a greater curse to the human race than the warrior who lies buried here. The heaviest doom of all has fallen upon his own people, as witness this very spot; for it would be hard to find, even in Africa, more wretched specimens of humanity than those that crouch and crowd in the shadow of his tomb. The town is a miserable African village, composed of houses of mud dried in the sun, in which the people live in squalid poverty. Men, with hardly clothing to cover their nakedness, sprawl in the streets, leaning their backs against the walls, idle, shiftless, and worthless. And yet these very men, if they would but rouse themselves from this lethargy, and stand up upon their feet, would show figures as straight as Indians, with a proud bearing, as if they were still the lords of the desert. This Arab stock has in it all the elements of power, and it is one of the indictments against Islam that it has enervated and destroyed a manly and a mighty race. The children, too, come into the world as well favored as other children, with eyes as bright as those of the Italian children that furnish subjects for so many artists. Even when they run after the carriage for pennies, you can but smile at the cunning of the little imps, who give you winks and nods to take you on your weak side, till you toss them a few tuppence, in spite of your better judgment. But it is upon the women that falls the extreme of poverty and all that it brings. However pretty they may be when young, they have to carry burdens that soon break their backs and the...
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