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Bad drrith defóüa] afaan zuntqo gaiztoa pet-höou küffo milli
Little mezzi dakallee | aacotigue * * , chi quia kougi tekit
Hot zaqual s * ~ f yéhamma • &hm’ou wfnnighi beroa berber mök
Cold esimmid * . tasunti “ “ 'pokip... 'wo y , Otza . hog bizd
CHAPTER III.
GENERAL SURVEY Ö Ï THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL
AFRICA TO THE NORTHWARD OF THE EQUATOR.
S e c t io n I .—Geographical Limitations—Land of Negroes ;
if, Ethiopia, i
Central Africa is a name by Ritter and by..s.Qme.£bther
physical geographers, to the mountaiil^^^Ogionsj jgitu0 ed
beyond a line which traverses the African contipeHt.under the
tenth degree of northern latitude^ \ The region thus marked
out is bounded towards the north, by a chain ;o,f -mountains
supposed to reach from the neighborhood of C^pe^oxo
on the Atlantic, to Cape Guardafui or the Straits, of.Babel
Mandeb. But Central Africa, m an etb^cpmphicabtsense^.
is more extensive than this limitation would fOpresenh.;'^
It comprehends, to- the northward of the hne-iabove d e scribed,
a tract of country likewise traversing Africa from
east" to west, in some places five ti'egreesr, hr, other ten
degrees in breadth, which is inhabited, not le'^ than the re**
gion further southward, by the Negro races,, the native inhar
bitants of 'this r continents This mpre; northerly tract* which
lies immediately beyond the great Sahara, complies in the
inland part comparatively low countries, yaileys|und> plains,
watered by the,Niger and other rivers, wh^hjdese^dsfrom
the mountains to the southward. The midland region® termed
Stidan; it is occupied by various Negro empires; or states of
considerable extent. To the eastward and i|p;thhiw^#^ard of
it are the mountainous cduritries of Abyssinia on the ;oiie side,
and. of Senegambia on the other. These mountainous tracts
are supposed to be connected with the Highlands of .Central
Africa, of which by Rittef they are considered, as two great
promontories or northward prolongations .