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for, while this result is impressed on the whole of the 

 Asiatic stems, the Laubes, dwelling in the Jaloff country, 

 in Western Africa, though of the Zingara race, are 

 remarkably ugly and diminutive, probably because they 

 are unmixed even with the Negro tribes around them. 

 In one characteristic they all unite, namely, to be by 

 predilection, wanderers without a home ; not graziers 

 nor cattle-dealers, but tinkers and pilferers. Another 

 outcast race, in Central Africa, are the Cumbrie Blacks, 

 whose origin is still less known. Though they are con- 

 sidered to be genuine Negroes, they are not permitted 

 to have a national existence, but are treated as slaves 

 by all the other tribes in Yaouri and Engarski. This 

 fact is sufficient to prove them of a distinct origin, and 

 their present character to be superinduced by the lust 

 and lawlessness of conquest and oppression. 



The Guanches, perhaps identical with the ancient 

 inhabitants of Fernando Po, both sallow nations ; the 

 first latterly, the second not yet extinct, appear on the 

 skirts of Africa, as remnants of a race of tenants of 

 the soil, before the expansion of the Negroes. 



^The cannibal Ompizee of Madagascar, copper coloured 

 savages, who fed upon each other till they are nearly or 

 perhaps now entirely destroyed, may have belonged to 

 the same stock, for they have no national affinities with 

 any other people of the island. We may mention here 

 the Benderwars, a Joand tribe on the Nerbudda, who 

 devour their aged and sick in honour of Kali ; the Ogres 

 or Gholes of Rajahstan, known by the name of Rak- 

 shassas, Pisachas, or Bhutas, Aghori, Mardikohrs, &c., 



