Excerpt from The Heart of Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: Three Years Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa From 1868 to 1871
In the same manner the Arabs under the caliphs did not attempt the conquest of Ethiopia, and it was perhaps owing to Buonaparte that Turkish Egypt advanced so far to the south.
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