=11. A Glance at the Rest of the Map.=――One can scarcely put one’s finger on any part in which there are not some Jews. When, in 1868, M. Joseph Halévy, at the request of the Alliance Israélite, travelled for a year in Abyssinia, he came across some black men whom he believed to be descendants of Jewish refugees from Egypt. This remnant of a tribe is known by the name of Falashas, which in Abyssinian dialect means exiles. M. Halévy made friendly advances, but the little black crowd stood aloof from the white men, silent and suspicious as to their motives in seeking them. ‘Accidentally,’ says M. Halévy, who tells the story, ‘I mentioned the name of Jerusalem. As if by magic, the attitude of the most incredulous was changed. “Oh! do you come from Jerusalem, the blessed city? Have you beheld with your own eyes Mount Zion?” All doubt was gone. They were never weary of asking these questions, and I must confess,’ continues M. Halévy, ‘I was deeply touched at seeing their black faces light up at the memory of our glorious history.’ Travellers, also, in remote mountain recesses of Asia Minor, in the ancient cities of Hindostan, and in the vast empire of China, have come across various small settlements bearing undeniable traces of a Jewish origin, and keeping up, in a greater or lesser degree, the distinctive rites and customs of Judaism. In the new world of the colonies, and in the United States, the numerous and prosperous Jewish communities, owing to their speaking European languages, are of course more readily recognisable as Jews, although, in America especially, the Judaism of these dispersed and transplanted Jews is not always in a very much better state of preservation than among the semi-savage sects of ancient civilisation. Among some American congregations Judaism seems to be occasionally rather a religion of sentiment and of complaisant remembrance, than of active and steadfast observance.