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them a cloth." The men are tall and tolerably 

 made, with woolly hair, but thinner lips, and noses 

 less flattened than the other Coast tribes. They 

 always go about armed with sword and dagger, 

 and are covered with gri-gris, charms and amulets, 

 which are generally verses from the Koran, sewed 

 up in small leather pouches. Some of the women, 

 when very young, are not bad-looking, having soft 

 and glossy skins, and fairly proportioned, but when 

 youth is passed they become perfect hags, their 

 breasts hanging down to the waist like a cow's 

 udder. 



Tropical Africa is the negro's proper home, and 

 the black race should be entirely confined to these 

 regions, for which, by nature, their whole frame, 

 constitution and intellect, are especially adapted. 

 They are out of their element on any other soil 

 than their own ; and in the land where they thrive, 

 the European must ever exist with difficulties, and 

 can never hope to enjoy life. It is a mistake to 

 believe that a white man can ever be acclimatised 

 to the pestilential malaria that ever hangs over 

 the West Coast of tropical Africa. In this de- 



