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predominant race ; and though masters (for the master 

 race in Oriental relations is in general the only object 

 of record), became dark in their descent, and were 

 mostly driven across the Red Sea. The northern 

 infusion was repeated more than once; and, besides 

 Egyptian history, we have the Geta and Arabians 

 confounded by classical writers, as we shall notice 

 in the sequel. 



The Cushites* of antiquity, confounded in many 

 cases with the Joktanites, correspond, with scarce an 

 exception, to the Ethiopians as we here notice them : 

 the regions of Cusha Dwipa within, and Cusha Divipa 

 without, of Hindoo geography, exactly represent 

 Asiatic and African Ethiopia, and the names of 

 Itiopiaivan and Itiopia, by which the Abyssinians 

 still designate themselves and their country, not- 

 withstanding all disclaimers to the contrary, denotes, 

 like the Arabian term Habesh, for the same state, 

 a mixed people with perfect correctness, for they were 

 the first Semi- Caucasian invaders of Arabia, Cushites, 

 Semitic races from the Suleimanic range of the western 

 border of the Indus. Fair tribes, from more northern 

 high lands of Asia, mixed with Indian Nishadas, or 

 with the local Nimreks of the soil, were already a 



* Chus, Cush, Cuth, according to Jacob Bryant and 

 Holwell, is derived from cushet a bow, still the chief 

 weapon of all the wild mountain races of India, the instru- 

 ment they used to achieve the death of opposing demigods ; 

 and, till lately, arming them as the guards of rajahs and 

 princes, who took them into their service. Goosch, in 

 India, still denotes a robber. 



