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TRAVELS IN AFRICA.towns ordistricts. These people serve on horseback. Theya:re:conl:­manded by alcaids appointed by the Sultan, and this(\)ffi·cehas annexedtoit a judicial power. The Arab militia receive neitlIer paynul' gratification, and their tribe isobllged to subsist them, the Sultalilfinding nothing but tents. They skirmish in small bodies, withfire·armsonly, without collecting or closing. Each district has its distinctivestandard, but the number of men annexed to a standard i5 not defi;.nite. On the whole, the military organization of this country is farfrom despicable.The Arabs thus, itseems, are destined Lere to hard treatment, andvery capable they seem of enduring it. They are indeed an extraordiuarypeople. Theil' columns, or wandererl' from them, perv.~é~i~d thisextreme skirt of Africa both by the east and by the south, :fithemselves as rovers in the sixth, but exhibiting themselvquerors in the seventh century. They now U\,;I.,UW;straits ofofCIsm Sulbs{~Qlle[ltlJ7,Islamismcountry, pr()D~lOJJ