Show good admixture re of blood in ruffians Rif fians flans the miffs riffs against whom franco france and spain are now waging war ore are not wild arab hillmen as many suppose but berbers the descendants of the ancient Ly blans who once ruled in north africa and of the norse vikings whose adventurous raids extended to the shores prof B V ber cloux one of tile foremost french historians odthe of the day tills has traced back tile the ancestry of the present day adversaries sa of france and spain the ancient Ly blans says professor Berl lous once formed a powerful confederation in northern africa and attained a high degree of culture it Is thought that tile the early creeks obtained their culton cult of pallas athene from the AfrIc africans atis for the oldest statuettes of the godless goddess scow show tier her with the characteristic berber B er plaid of goatskin which was th alie 0 usual dress dresa of the ancient berber maidens in the atlas mountains |