ABSTRACT
But while the Land of the Blacks stretches right across Africa and includes a part of Abyssinia, the region called Kash was a specific portion of the Nile Valley, and the central part of it is probably represented to-day by the flourishing province of Dongola. Its chief town was situated somewhere near the modern town of Marawi (Sanam abu-Dom), which lies about 10 miles from the fort of the Fourth Cataract, and under the New Kingdom it was called Napata. Amenhetep III (B .C . 1410) says that the frontier of Egypt on the south was at Karui, or Karei and he probably refers to the region later called Napata. From time immemorial gold was brought into Egypt from the south by way of Kash or Kush, and the country was called Nubia, or the “ land of gold,” the old word for gold being nub P"*!, and this is the name by
which that portion of the Nile Valley is known to-day. A ll these facts show that Kush or Nubia, miscalled by travellers and others “ Ethiopia/' is not Abyssinia, and that both ethnographically and geographically, the two countries are in no way connected, though each is inhabited by peoples who have “ burnt faces,” i.e. who have swarthy brown or black skins.
