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. 1829 Excerpt: ... he expected. Vi'ith regard to the Tuaricks, an examination of their language can alone determine their true origin. Dr. Oudney describes it as harsh and guttural; but he thought it had great strength, and appeared expressive. He gives some rude characters (nineteen in number) as the Tuarick alphabet: these characters ...
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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. 1829 Excerpt: ... he expected. Vi'ith regard to the Tuaricks, an examination of their language can alone determine their true origin. Dr. Oudney describes it as harsh and guttural; but he thought it had great strength, and appeared expressive. He gives some rude characters (nineteen in number) as the Tuarick alphabet: these characters are found rudely cut in almost all plaws frequented by the Tuaricks, sometimes written from right to left, sometimes vice versd. The power of the letters, however, is not specified, and they have certainly more the appearance (some of them at least) of numerical, than of alphabetic characters. It is remarkable, that 9 Naush u1NAeyme, an Arabian monarch of the line of I-iamyar, some centuries before the Christian era, is said to have led an expedition into Mogreb (Africa), till he was stopped by drifting sands. Upon the spot, he erected a statue, with the inscription: " This monument was set up by Naush ul Naeyme the Hamyarite, King of Yemen and Moghreb, who came thus far, and could flnd no passage further. Hereafter, let him who reaches this spot. avoid all fruitless research, and retire."--Klwlauant, in Price's Essay towards the History of Arabia. the 'places where the Tuarick is spoken, are all commercial towns, forming a chain along the Libyan desert from Egypt to Mauritania. At the same time, far from being a nation of traders, they are, for the most part, predatory nomades, living in tents. The original seat of their power appears, moreover, to be east of Soudan and south of the Tibboo country, which may account for a black race of Tuaricks. That there should be black and white Tuaricks, is not more unaccountable, than that there should be in the same part of India, black and white Jews. We cannot help suspecti...
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