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000 l'RAVELS IN AFItICA.s1Jar;ingimportanceas a linlbofagreatempioo(ceased witIi tbe; dow,ttl;.faH of Carthage; aftel! 'wbidltbey becam~\tulberahle on everyside.We further knowtbat the Arabswereever'lJliowed as obtfuders ;~:t théproper children of dile soilrorced toretire to the mountains,'orire_in..ing;a limitec;l and sullen occupation of the plain; that fpequent 0011­fiicts tOM place, as politioalor fanatical sti:muti incited, hetween ahuri;'gin(:ls themselves, betw(:len them and the intrud~rs: and tnat theenel'gj'of Moslemism, wnerever it came ioto action; pœ'taîledioi\l'er,wtne'feeblepertinacityof idolatry. Suhsequentlythepress{l;l~e;~fOhristianimra..sion gave occaslol!). to. a 601'eigri and (i)idioos' nSllPpation.~ but the claiFnsfouaded; according,to' people?sîdeashere, on sacred. principles combiningaIl internaI competitions into onecommon patiotic eft!opt, anali>Ieman succeeded thus in expelling thelast intttldeFs, and consolidated;as far ~s it could he done, a common interest, at t-he head of which heplaced his owndynasty. Tbatprogress \Vas Dot, subsequenHy, by thénaturalcourse of events, made inciviHsatieu, has dependedofloll!cumstanceswhich calI for further explanation in due time. Aecording tothe accounts ofeye-witnesses in .,he more early part oftbis (etghteenth)eentury, the situation of hunlan naturehere hnd vaciHated, and eontinuedto doso, li>etween anarchy, and a.state of misrule almost as frightfuIas anarehy itself.We are given to understand that a much amelioratedstate of things haspt'evailed duping the reigu of the presentSultan, and that strangers need no longer he shoeked by Bu;ch horrors tand sueh disgraces to hurn.an nature, as are detailed by Busnot, Braithwaite,and Stewart; details indeed 80 tremelldous, that tbeir ltnpressionsseem to have supervened, in the minds of tlloBe wbo llad the mis ..fortune to observe the facts, aU capability of procuring or conveyinginforql~tion on any other subject. As to moral. apq poli:tiçal causes,the world has indeed profited Httle li>y any information communic~tfe