Note 356 — VII

Nachtigal, ii. 417 ff.; cf. also Barth, iii. 77—8. The name ‘Berebere’ or ‘Beruere’ (Berber), by which the Kanuri are designated even at the present day by their southern neighbours, the Fulani, points to an original immigration from the Sahara. [On the subject of the Berbers, Sir H. H. Johnston has the following illuminating remarks in his recently published monograph on The Opening Up of Africa, p. 102: ‘The Berbers were very near to the white man of Europe in race, descent, and culture, but they were sufficiently tinged with the blood of Africa to be no longer in community of feeling with Europe. . . . They found the Romans a little too European to their liking: too dominating, too fond of method, order, tidiness, and fatiguing public works.’ It would perhaps be impossible to sum up the African’s objection to the European more succinctly.]