334 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



Suleiman, or rather Arawati, the mountain of the 

 dove, or the ship, for their first remove of the Arkite 

 reminiscence from its original centre.* They left the 

 purer Papuas scattered westwards, or drove them on- 

 wards till one of its tribes constituted the Negro 

 races, with a taint of the white stock forming the 

 most western branches, such as the ancient Numidian. 

 and present Caffres and Gallas. 



In consequence of the deep rooted hatred of the 

 Caucasian races towards the typical Negro, we find 

 those frequent allusions to purity of blood in the 

 Arabian clans of the desert. It is the whole question 

 whereon the poem of Antar hinges ; for colour alone 

 is not the cause, skice Bedoween tribes are in many 

 instances exceedingly dark, from the Euphrates to the 

 west coast of Morocco, and the Tarikh Tebry endea- 

 vours to account for it in the legend, which relates 

 how the ancient Arabians were fair and blue eyed, 

 but so wicked that they would not hearken to the 

 prophet Salah. Miraculous omens had no effect, until 

 at last they were converted, in one day, from white to 

 red, ,and in the next to black. This tale may be the 

 reminiscence of Scythian inroads and conquest, such 

 as were effected by the giants of the Pentateuch, who, 

 inferior in number, were gradually absorbed by the 



* The Arawati and Aryawart mountains, are perhaps 

 higher up in Asia, and the real locality of the diluvian 

 record. But the Parveti Montes of Ptolemy, so named from 

 the Sanscrit, Parvat, a dove, is Suleiman Koh, 12,831 feet 

 high, still noted for the abundance of different species of 

 doves. 



