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killed in whatever art or trade they have learnt, 
as Europeans are, All the negro nutions of 
Africa are idolaters, and in @ state of great 1gn0- 
rance and barbarism. 
The country of Africa which is most interesting 
to us is Egypt, because many things and histories 
related in the Bible, happened in Egypt. 
Abraham, as you have read, went down to 
Egypt, on account of a famine, or want of food in 
Canaan. So did Isaac, So did J acob in his old 
age, after Joseph his son, who was sold into 
Egypt by his brethren, had risen to be ruler of all 
that fertile land. And this led to the settlement 
of Jacob’s children, the Israelites, in Egypt, where 
king Pharaoh gave them lands. And when many 
hundred years afterwards they had become a nu- 
merous people, and were made slaves by another, 
the plagues which you have read of, were brought 
on Egypt. 
Egypt would be a very barren country but for 
its great river Nile, which overflows its banks 
every year, and thus waters the country through 
which it winds. 
It was among the reeds and flags on the edge of 
this river, that Pharaoh’s daughter found the 
infant Moses in a cradle made of bulrushes. 
And it was in the Red Sea, which divides Egypt 
from Arabia in Asia, on the east, that Pharaoh 
and his host were drowned, as they were pursuing 
the Israelites, for whom God hud made a passage 
over it. 
On the South of this great peninsula of Africa, 
is the Cape of Good Hope, which stretches into 
the South Atlantic Ocean, It belongs to the