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this fellow has rather a lordly port, the expression of a vigorous, 

 brave, alert man. This, which I am disposed to term the Zulu 

 type, from the resemblance to that people, is on many accounts 

 the most interesting of all the groups we have to consider. My 

 idea that it may have come from the above-named tribe is based 

 on an acquaintance with a party of southern Africans who some 

 forty years ago were brought to this country by a showman. I 

 came to know them well. They were attractive fellows, of the 

 same quality as certain blacks I had known in Kentucky. When 

 [ saw these strangers I perceived their likeness to certain able 

 blacks whose features and quality had made impressions on my 

 mind that remain clear to the present day. It is likely that this 

 element of the negro people I have termed Zulu is not of any one 

 tribe; it may be of several diverse stocks with no other common 

 quality than that which vigor gives. They may, in part, be from 

 Bangora tribes of the Congo Valley, or even Soudanese. The pro- 

 portion of this group to the whole is small; because it merges into 

 the other it can not well be estimated. I find that I have reckoned 

 it in my notes as one twentieth of the whole black population. 



Set over against these robust blacks, but also of high quality, 

 is a group less distinctly limited, which has for its characteristics a 

 rather tall, lean form, a slender neck, a high head, and a thin face, 

 usually with a nose of better form than is commonly found, some- 

 times approaching the aquiline. The skin of these people is often 

 as black as that of the Guinea folk, yet it is of another hue — a 

 deader black, perhaps due to some difference in the skin glands. 

 Usually, however, there is a trace of brown in the complexion. 

 Now and then the relative straightness of the hair and their facial 

 profiles suggest that the peculiarity of this people is due to an 

 admixture of Semitic (probably Arabian) blood. Negroes of this 

 type are most abundant in the northern part of the South, par- 

 ticularly in Virginia. They are rare in the plantation States. 

 This is mayhap due to the fact that in the selection of people to 

 be sold to the traders such delicate folk were retained where they 

 belonged — as house servants. These rare negroes, which for lack 

 of a better name will be termed Arabs, are few in number. They 

 can not be reckoned at more than one per cent of the whole. 



Besides the comparatively recognizable types above reckoned, 

 there is another which puzzles the observer. They are of varied 

 shapes, generally, however, rather smaller than the average. Their 

 peculiarity consists in the reddish-brown hue of their skins, which 

 at first suggests that they are mulattoes. Their faces and hands 

 are often distinctly blotched with darker patches, in the manner 

 of freckles. At times I have been inclined to regard their fea- 



