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the country. Some of these tribes have long hair, 

 and Caucasian features, notwithstanding the skin 

 is black. 



The faith of El Islam, which has extended to the 

 equator, and is still making great strides, has done 

 more to civilise Africa than all the efforts of 

 Exeter Hall philanthropy and Christian mis- 

 sionaries. It has inculcated the worship of the 

 one God, and although it tolerates domestic slavery 

 and polygamy (which were both Jewish insti- 

 tutions), its progress does away with all the re- 

 volting barbarism of the heathen, such as fetishism, 

 witch doctrine, poison ordeals, customs or whole- 

 sale human sacrifices, and cannibalism. 



The Negro I believe to be an inferior species; and 

 I can never look upon him, in Exeter Hall parlance, 

 " as a man and a brother," unless the gorilla is also 

 admitted and recognized as one of the family. 

 There is a barrier between the white man and the 

 negro that never ought to be broken down. The 

 sloping contracted forehead, small eyes, flat nose, 

 thick lips and projecting jaw, proclaim him to be of a 

 marked race, distinct from all the rest of the world. 



