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tribes speaking the Showiah language, which is believed 

 to contain a considerable quantity of Numidian roots. 

 There are other Berber tribes, that are miners, and ma- 

 nufacturers of gun powder, gun barrels, knives, black 

 soap, &c. These are again referred to the Numidian 

 people, passing gradually into the Poulah and Jaloffs, 

 who, alone among the Negroes, have horses and camels. 



THE SUAKIM. 



EAST and south of the Nile, this great stem seems to 

 pass into Suakim troglodytes, who are referred to the 

 ancient Kahtan Arabs, black by blood, which, if it be 

 correctly viewed, the filiation of this branch of the 

 Ethiopian stem is marked out from beyond the Indus 

 to the west coast of Morocco. To the troglodyte race 

 belong the Ababde, mistaken for Arabs, though they 

 have the Negro mouth and colour, occupying a great 

 space between the Red Sea and the Nile. They are 

 conductors of caravans from Sennaar, and spoken of 

 with approbation. 



The Gomera, a relict of an almost extinct and un- 

 known people, still occupy a portion of the district of 

 Rif in Morocco, living in harmony with the Shelluhs, 

 and possibly descended from those marine Celts, who, 

 in early ages, came down the coasts of Africa, where 

 they left the cairns, peulvans, and cromlechs, which 

 the Romans at more than one place called Philcenian 

 altars, particularly those found near Cyrene, and on 



