AND LOWER EGYPT. 83 



there above three sorts : the baboon, the same which 

 the ancients called the cynocephalus (dog-headed) 

 monkey *, the macaca-|', and the aigrette :^. 



That species of perroquets, which the Nubians 

 bring in great numbers to Cairo, is that of the par- 

 roquet ivith a rose-coloured ring roimd its neck \ ; its 

 Arabic name hdourra^ which is also that of a large 

 kind of black millet cultivated in that country. 



The Nubians of Z)owo-oZ:z and o^ Sejjnaarzxe well 

 made and tall in stature. Their skin is of a beau- 

 tiful shining black. They wear, like the Turks and 

 the Arabs, a beard and whiskers. On this subject I 

 shall remark, that in France I have met with very 

 well informed persons who did not know that the 

 Negroes had beards. Although, in general, it shoots 

 later with them than with the Egyptians, and though 

 they are not so well furnished with it, they seldom 

 fail to have a pretty thick one on their faces. The 

 chief of the caravan at Siout, as handsome as he was 

 rascally, bore on his chin a long and thick beard. 



* Le pap'ion ou babouin proprement dit. Buffon, Hist. Najt 

 des Quad. — Simla sphinx. Lin. 



f Macacque. BufFon, Hist. Nat. des Quad, — Sirtiia cymnnmU 

 gus. Lin. 



I Aigrette. Buffon, Hist. Nat. des Quad. — Simia aygula. Lin. 



§ Buffon, Hist. Nat. des Ois. & pi. enlum. No. 551.— 

 Psittacus Alexandri, Lin. 



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