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Title: Ridpath’s Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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of the lastnamed river, the city of Timbuctu, andthe countries eastward to Baghirmi. The second family includes anothervast area of territory, and central and Eastan equally numerous array SoUth Nigri-of tribes and nations. tians-This family is called the Central Su- AFRICAA> NIGRITIANS.—ETHNIC CLASSIFICA TION. 629 danese. It extends over the upper val-ley of the Benue, over the countries ofTibesti, Bornu, Borgu, Northern Darfur,the region round about lake Chad, thedistrict known as the Shari, Waday, andEastern Darfur. The third group, calledthe East Sudanese, includes a part ofthe Shari, the remainder of Darfur, Kor-dofan, the upper valley of the White Nile, of which the first group has seventy-three, the second seventy-six, the thirdfifty-six, and the fourth subdivisionsone hundred and eight. S&K53LThese numbers and divi- tions.sions tend to give the reader somenotion of those vast populations which,in the aggregate, are estimated at aboutone hundred and fifty millions. No
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LANGONASSI SUDANESE—TYPES.—Drawn by Madame Paule Crampel, after Nebout and Hrunache. Welle, and the vast region around theLualaba. The fourth, or South African Nigri-cans, begin with Zululand, Natal, Kaf-fraria, the east coast from the river Jubato Delagoa bay, the region of lake Ny-assa, the valleys, or basins, of the greatNyanzas and Tanganyika, and the west-ern coast of the continent from theDamaraland northward to about the fifth-parallel north. These four groups include as theirsubdivisions no fewer than three hundredand thirteen distinct tribes, or nations, wonder, when we reflect upon the as-tounding volume of these populationsand the physical and mental character-istics of the race, that the stronger na-tions, constructed by men of vigorousand unscrupulous blood, have pouncedupon them and borne them by drovesand shiploads into the horrors of analmost world-wide enslavement. It is doubtful whether in this connec-tion we should attempt to Detailed scheme enumerate even the n
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