Kabail
or KABYLE (ka-bīl'), a person belonging to any of a series of tribes inhabiting Algeria, and forming the best known branch of the Berber race, the old aborigines of north Africa, who occupied at one time all the territory between Egypt and the Canary Islands.
They were known to the Romans as the Numidians. Though in physique the Kabyles resemble the Arabs, their life and character are radically different.
Their houses are of stone; they dwell in towns, and engage not only in the cultivation of figs, vines, and tobacco, but in the manufacture of lime, tiles, soap, and unknown to them, and wood-engraving and engraving on metal are practiced among them. Though Mohammedans by religion, their political institutions are essentially democratic. The Arab language is spoken by the majority of them, but their original tongue is not lost, and their popular literature, preserved through oral transmissions, has been committed to writing by a French savant. The French, in whose territory they now lie, find them active soldiers and artisans. by the Egyptians and Abyssinians.
KABUL (kä-böl'), capital of the kingdom of Afghanistan; on the Kabul river, at an elevation of 6,400 feet above sealevel. The citadel, Bala-Hissar, contains the palace and other public buildings, the fort, etc. Kabul carries on a considerable trade with Hindustan through the Khyber Pass. It was taken by the British in 1839 and in 1842, and on the occasion of a subsequent war with the KAFFIR Afghanistan at the height of about 8,400 feet, flowing E., passing through the by their troops. Pop., about 150,000.
Khyber Pass into India, and falling into the Indus at Attock. Length, 300 miles. feet, flowing E., passing through the Afghanistan at the height of about 8,400 Khyber Pass into India, and falling into city, and the desert around, in the S. or border of the Promised Land. It is said, city, and the desert around, in the S.
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