Dogs are numerous

but cats rare, in Egypt and Barbary. ~~ There is a marked distinction between the races in the N. and HE. of the great desert and those in the Central Sudan and the rest of Africa and the S. The main elements of the pinion of North Africa, including gypt and Aby in i a, are Hamitic and Semitic, but in the N. the Hamite Berbers are mingled with Seoples of the same race as those of prehistoric Southern Hugope, and other types of various offins, and in the BE. and S. EB. with peoples of the negro. type. The Semitic Arabs are found all over the N. region, and even in the Western Sahara and Central Sudan, and far down the HB. coast as traders. The Somalis and Gallas are mainly Hamitic. In the Central Sudan and the whole of the country between the desert and the Gulf of Guinea the population is pure negro — people of the black, flat or broad nosed, thick-lipped type, with narrow heads, woolly hair, high cheek-bones, and prognathous jaws. Scattered among them are peoples of a probably Hamitice stock. d’, “the Great,” Viceroy of the Indies, was born in 1453, near Lisbon. Albuquerque landed on the Malabar coast in 503, Ae a fleet and some troops; conquered Goa, which he made the "seat of the Portuguese Government, and the center of its Asiatic commerce; and afterward Ceylon, the Sunda Isles, the Peninsula of Malacca, and (in 1515) the Island of Ormuz at the entrance of the Persian Gulf. He died at sea near Goa, Dec. 16, 1515.