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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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TUAREG CARAVAN IN THE KUFRA OASES (The balloonlike hoods conceal their women. The Tuaregs. who are distinguished by the half veils overtheir faces, belong to the Brotherhood of the Senusssiyeh) ^/< I THE AM ERIC AX REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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AN ARAB WOMAN AND CHILD OF THE KUFRA OASES, TRIPOLITANIA sandaled missionaries from the innumerableItalian orders have carried the Gospel, andthe propaganda of an Italian protectorate,to the oppressed and poverty-stricken peas-antry of the far interior. Under the guise ofscientists Italian political and commercialagents have been quietly investigating theproblems and possibilities of the regencyfrom end to end, while the powerful Bancodi Roma, an institution backed with thefunds of the Holy See, through its branchesin Tripoli and Benghazi, has been system-atically buying up arable farm lands fromthe impoverished peasantry at a few lire thehectare, which quadrupled in value with thelanding of the first Italian soldier. Though there are probably not two thou-sand native-born Italians in the whole ofTripolitania, the numerous Jews, in whosehands is practically the entire trade of thecountry have been offered inducements ofone kind and another to become Italian sub-jects, Italy thus layin

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