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testable land both body and mind become dis- 

 eased ; even animals deteriorate. Here the negro 

 is for ever secure in the inheritance of his own soil, 

 for the climate is so deleterious to other races, 

 that no colonisation, with any chance of success, is 

 possible, and the black will never, like the Red 

 Indian, disappear before the advance of civilisa- 

 tion, or be driven into the fastnesses of the interior 

 by the encroachments of Europeans. 



Every ethnologist has his own doctrine about 

 the different races of Africa. I divide them into 

 three families, the Moslem, the Negro, and the 

 Kafir. The Bushmen of Southern Africa are so 

 few in number, that they may be compared only 

 with the Aztecs of America, or the Yanadi or 

 Yaks, the aborigines of the forests of Central 

 India. 



The Moslem family, decidedly the noblest on 

 the African continent, comprises the Moors and 

 Arabs, who are distinctly a red race, and the Jalofs, 

 Fulahs, Mandingoes, and Haussas, many of whom 

 appear to be of mixed blood, and are probably the 

 progeny of men of the red race with the women of 



