File:The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912) (14597461929).jpg

English: p. 303: AFRICAN TYPES. 1. A SWAZI WARRIOR, SWAZILAND. 2. AN UPPER MENDI CHIEF IN WAR COSTUME, SIERRA LEONE 3. TUAREGS, SOUTH ALGERIA. 4. AN UPPER MENDI CHIEF, SIERRA LEONE.

Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ019 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
nd. Every person must pray five times a day with his face turned toward Mecca, the mosques being always open for prayer. During one month, every Mohammedan must abstain from eating, drinking, smoking, smelling perfumes, and every kind of indulgence from sunrise to sunset, when the restriction ceases. Sometimes the month of abstinence comes during the hot season, when to fast for a whole day, especially from water, is extremely painful. To the south of the Barbary States lies the great Sahara Desert, now crossed in many directions by caravans, which exchange the manufactures of Europe for the gold dust, ivory, ostrich feathers, spices, gums, nuts, dates, and palm-oil of the African interior. Its area is over a million square miles, and its population may be anything from a quarter to half a million. Unlike the sand of the seashore, that of the Sahara contains many particles of clay, which accounts for its fertility when water in sufficient quantity is present. The great change that takes 30a
Text Appearing After Image:
303: AFRICAN TYPES. 1. A SWAZI WARRIOR, SWAZILAND. 2. AN UPPER MENDI CHIEF IN WAR COSTUME, SIERRA LEONE 3. TUAREGS, SOUTH ALGERIA. 4. AN UPPER MENDI CHIEF, SIERRA LEONE.
304 PEEPS INTO AFRICAN COUNTRIES place in the density of the desert atmosphere, besides causing land and sea breezes and monsoons, often produces the mirage — a fanciful view of palms overshadowing some limpid pool, that fills the jaded and thirsty traveler with a new energy, and urges him onward with fevered haste, only to recede and vanish utterly from his disappointed gaze. THE MOUNTAIN LAND OF ABYSSINIA Shut in on the north and west by the sandy Arabian desert, bordered on the south by the deserts of Somaliland, and on the east by the Arabian mountains, lies the high plateau of Abyssinia, fully seven thousand feet above the level of the sea. Plateau though it is, it is. hard to realize the fact. Split up by huge rocky gorges, through which rush its roaring mountain torrents, it presents the appearance of a number of islands

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.