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ability beyond black men, from the former residing in a country where 

 their chief condiment was rainbow dung ; and hence, of course, their 

 superiority from feeding on what was considered to be celestial ordure. 

 He also informed me, that in his country — and the Houssa people are 

 a very extensive tribe of Filatahs — the chameleon always goes along at 

 the same pace ; not quickening his steps for rain or wind, but going 

 slow and steady in all phases of temperature. On being asked the 

 cause of this uniformity, the chameleon replies, " that he does so, 

 because his father did so before him : " the principle which is alwajs 

 advanced by an African on the suggestion of improvement. When I 

 asked my informant, why the chameleon changed his colour, when he 

 would not change his gait ? he replied he could not tell, but that when 

 a chameleon met white men, he became white ; on meeting a black 

 man, he turned black ; and coming near blue or red cloth, he assumed 

 their colours respectively — statements I need not inform you that are 

 morfe complimentary to the animal's politeness, than to the facts of his 

 natural history. The Houssa people also believe in the existence of the 

 tinicorn ; but his location cannot be pointed out. He is supposed to 

 be the champion of the unprotected goat and sheep from the ravages 

 of the leopard ; that when he meets a leopard he enters amicably into 

 conversation with him, descants upon his cruelty, and winds up by 

 depriving him of his claws. On my telling the man that no such 

 thing as a leopard without claws has ever been found, he seemed to be 

 quite ashamed of being convicted in "interpreting supposed facts that 

 have never been observed," and ceased his narration at once. 



]f I am not trespassing too much on your time and attention, I will 

 detain you a few minutes longer by alluding to a matter that, since it 

 came under my notice, has caused me a good deal of serious thought. 

 I do not pretend to enter into the ethnology of African races, or pre- 

 sume in a capacity to treat of them as Drs. Latham and Pritchard, and 

 Mons. Froberville have done, but I wish to point out a strange fact of 

 arialogy between the African nations visited on our late voyage, and 

 the Anglo-Saxons who inhabited our country before the Christian era. 



A paper was read at the soiree of the Historic Society, at the 

 close of last year's meeting of the British Association in Liverpool, 

 by Mr. Wright, M.A., F.S.A., upon the Faussett Antiquities — a 

 collection made by the Rev. Bryan Faussett of Heppington, near 

 Canterbui'y, and which had been gathered from the graves of our fore- 

 fathers who cxi.sted in this country in a pro-Christian period. Mr. 

 Wright observes — " 1\\ the case of a man wc almost always find above 



