484 DIVISION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES 



generally include in our notion of the Negro countenance ; 

 nor have they the peculiar fetid cutaneous odour *." The 

 Koromantyns, from the Gold Coast, are characterized by 

 firmness of body and mind, activity, courage, and ferocity ; 

 by the greatest fortitude and contempt of death. He ad- 

 duces a horrid example of these qualities in a punishment 

 inflicted for revolt. Two of them were hung up alive in 

 chains : one died on the eighth, the other on the ninth 

 day, without having uttered a groan or complaint f. The 

 Eboes from the Bight of Benin " are the lowest and most 

 wretched of all the nations of Africa." — " I cannot 

 help observing, too, that the conformation of the face, in a 

 great majority of them, very mucii resembles that of the 

 baboon %:' 



In some parts of Africa, intermixture with other nations 

 may have produced occasional departures from the original 

 type of the race. In the north, the aboriginal Berber 

 tribes, and subsequently the Arabian or Saracen conquerors, 

 not to mention the Phoenician, Greek, Roman, and Turkish 

 colonists, must have mingled extensively with the Negroes. 

 On the east, the kingdom of Abyssinia is of Arabian origin; 

 and traces of the same people are found along the coast, 

 nearly as far as the Cape. Europeans, and particularly the 

 Portuguese, have had settlements on the west coast between 

 three and four centuries. The result of such mixtures must 

 not be confounded with native differences. 



The tribes in the south of Africa are marked by strong 

 peculiarities. The fine forms, tallness, and strength of the 

 KafFers, have been already observed (p. 380). Although 

 their hair is black and woolly, or rather short and curling, 

 the skin is of a deep brown instead of black ; they have the 

 high forehead and prominent nose of Europeans, with thick- 

 ish lips, and projecting cheek-bones. In moral qualities, arts, 



* History of the West Indies, v. ii. p. 73. Mr. Park's description coin- 

 cides with this account ; Travels into the Interior Districts of Africa, 8vo. 

 ed. p. 25. 



f Edwards, ibid. p. 79. 



1 Ibid. 88-9. 



