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and FoRSTER uses the same comparison ; " The Natives of 

 Mallicollo are a small, nimble, slender, ill-favoured set of 

 beings, that of all men I ever saw bordered nearest upon 

 the tribe of monkeys*.'^ As the characteristic form of the 

 head and features of the Negro are just opposite to those of 

 the Eskimaux and native Americans, we must regard 

 these comparisons, which cannot be correct in all the 

 instances, as loose expressions, not meant to be interpreted 

 literally. 



Under the Ethiopian variety, as under the Caucasian and 

 Mongolian, are included numerous nations and tribes dis- 

 tinguished from each other by well-marked modifications of 

 organization and moral qualities. Nothing is more errone- 

 ous than the common notion that all Africans have one and 

 the same character. I have already noticed the diversities 

 of features and skulls (see pages 281 and 310) ; and equally 

 strong distinctions are observable in general character, 

 whether physical or moral. To the proofs of the former 

 point before adduced, I shall here add the testimony of Dr. 

 WiNTERBOTTOM : " As great a variety of features occurs 

 among these people as is to be met with in the nations of 

 Europe : the sloping contracted forehead, small eyes, de- 

 pressed nose, thick lips, and projecting jaws, with which the 

 African is usually caricatured, are by no means constant 

 traits : on the contrary, almost every gradation of counte- 

 nance may be met with, from the disgusting picture too com- 

 monly drawn of them, to the finest set of European features. 

 Want of animation does not characterize them, and faces 

 are often met with whicli express the various emotions of 

 the mind with great energy f ." 



Mr. Edwards, who had seen them in the West Indies, re- 

 gards the Foulahs as a link between the Moors and Negroes. 

 *'They are of a Less glossy black than those of the Gold 

 Coast; their hair is crisped and bushy; n(tt woolly, but soft 

 and silky. They have not such flat noses or thick lips as we 



♦ Observations on a Voyage round the World, p. 242. 

 i Account of the Native J fricnns, v. i. p. 19S. 

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