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 ANGLO-SAXO-FRANCO ALGERIANS

KABYLIA

glimpse of the New African France has increased our desire to know what this land was like before the coming of the Gaul, and we ask, "What of the original inhabitants of Barbary? What of the people who dwelt in the land even before the Romans, the Vandals, or the Arabs had swept over it? What of the people found already on the scene at the dawn of history? Have they been exterminated by successive conquests?" Let me in reply conduct you into a mountain region called Kabylia, where we shall find our answer. The Kabyle Mountains lie about seventy miles east of the city of Algiers.
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