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Show ANNOTATIONS AND ADDI'l'lONS. 71 language i the same as that of the Berbers; and they belong unquestionably to the number of the primitive Lybian nations. The Tuaricks present a remarkable physiological phenomenon. Different tribes among them are, according to the climate, white, yellowish, and even almost black; but all are without woolly hair or negro features. (Exploration scientifique de l' Algerie, t. ii. p. 343.) (9) p. 27.-" The Ship of the Dese·rt." In oriental poems, the camel is called the land-ship, or the ship of the Desert (Sefynet-el-badyet). (Chardin, Voyages, nouv. ed. par Langles, 1811, t. iii. p. 376.) But the camel is not merely the carrier of the Desert, and the link which, rendering communication between different countries possible, connects them with each other: he is also, as Carl Ritter has shown in his excellent memoir on the sphere of diffusion of these animals, the principal and essential condition of the nomadic life of nations in the patriarchal stage of national development, in the hot parts of ow· planet where rain is either altogether wanting, or very infrequent. No animal's life is so closely associated by natural bonds with a particular stage of the development of the life of man-a connection historically established for several thousand years--as the life of the camel among the Bedouin tribes ( Asien, bd. viii. Abth. i. 184 7, s. 610 und 758). "The camel was entirely unknown to the cultivated Carthaginian nation through all the centuries of their flourishing existence, until the destruction of their city. The Marusians first brought it into military usc, in the train of armies, in Western Lybia, in the times of the Uresars; perhaps in consequence of its employment in commercial operations iu the valley of the Nile by the Ptolemies. The Guanches, inhabitants of the Canary Islands, and probably re;ated to the Berber race, were not acquainted with the camel before the 15th century, when it was introduced by Norman conquerors and settlers. In the probably very limited communication of the Guanches with the coast of Africa, the small size of the boats would prevent the transport of large animals. The true Berber race, diffused throughout the interior of Northern Africa, and to which the Tibbos and Tuaricks, as already mentioned, |