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Show Good Admixture of Blood in Rifirians The Eiffs, against whom France and Sjiain are now waging war, are not w&ld Arab hillmen, as many suppose, bu Berbers, the descendants of the anient Lybians, who once ruled In norti) Africa, and of the Norse vikings, vik-ings, Vyhose adventurous raids extended extend-ed to tle Lybian shores. Prof. F. Ber-lloux, Ber-lloux, oie of the foremost French historians his-torians ofrytlie day, has traced back the ancestry oiJ the' present-day adversaries adversa-ries of Fraqceand Spain. The ancient Lybians, saws Professor Berliour, once formed a powerful confederation in northern Afrtica and attained a high degree of cuIV.ikp. It is. thought that the early Greeks Obtained their cult of Pallas Athene frorn the Africans, for the oldest statuefltes of the goddess show her with tliel characteristic Berber Ber-ber plaid of goatskyn, wliich was the usual dress of the ailicient Berber maidens maid-ens in the Atlas tuovmtains. |