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from High Asia, and, subsequently, from the vicinity 

 of the upper Indus; and the further progress they 

 made, is likewise to be traced, by the symbolical lions 

 in their sculptures being invariably mainless ; a cha- 

 racter which marks the variety of that formidable 

 animal existing only in the southern portions of an- 

 cient Sindh, Persia and Arabia; while the typical 

 species, if the symbol had been adopted from the 

 African, would most assuredly have been figured with 

 a huge mane. 



Some hordes had preceded them across the Nile, to 

 form a portion of the Mauritanian and Nubian popu- 

 lations, which we have already shown, were in part 

 driven by the Arabs, at a later period, across the 

 Sahara, to commix with the Negroes on the Gambia, 

 and are now Poulas, Jaloffs, and Mandingos. Others 

 departing by sea, probably from Ceylon, reached as 

 far as Madagascar, where they found already the 

 Ompizee cannibals, while they formed themselves the 

 tribes of black Malgash Yoalzis, Ondeva of the pre- 

 sent time. These were followed by Semitic clans of 

 Indo-Arabs, whose kindred we have seen in the Aus- 

 tralian Islands, and who, on the shores of eastern 

 Africa, commenced, under the names of Joasinees and 

 Jacalvas, the same profession of pirates. These, in 

 common with the Habesh, influenced the whole of the 

 south with opinions and parts of speech; and they 

 modified the characteristic distinctions of the Negro 

 people within contact, as is evident in the Caffre and 

 Galla nations. 



