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describes the Tuaryks as a handsome race of people, with European 

 features, which are preserved among the darkest tribes ; and Capt. 

 Denham corroborates the statement : " The women have a copper com- 

 plexion ; eyes large, black, and rolling; noses plain:" they wear their 

 hair long and loose. In some instances he observed faces like those of 

 the ancient Egyptians ; the nose, especially, having the same contour as 

 those of the Egyptian statues. 



The Tibboos, or Tibbos, are dark coloured, or black, but have not the 

 Negro countenance, nor the Negro hair : their figure is slender, their limbs 

 are well turned, and their gait free and active. Captain Lyon says, that 

 the Tibboo females are light and elegant in form, and wear a graceful cos- 

 tume, quite different from that of the Fezzaners : " they have aquiline 

 noses, fine teeth, and lips formed like those of Europeans ; their eyes are 

 expressive, and their colour is of the brightest black : there is something 

 in their walk, and erect manner of carrying themselves, which is very 

 striking : their feet and ankles are delicately formed, and are not loaded 

 with a mass of brass or iron, but have merely a slight anklet of polished 

 silver, or copper, sufficient to shew their jetty skin to more advantage : 

 they also wear red slippers : their hair is plaited on each side, in such a 

 manner as to hang down on the cheeks like a fan, or, rather, in the form 

 of a large dog's ear." Clapperton and Denham describe the Tibboos of 

 Bilma, in lat. 18, 19, in very similar terms. 



Opposite to the coast of Morocco, at its southern extremity, is a 

 group of islands (lat. 28 and 29), now termed the Canary Islands ; 

 anciently, the Fortunate Isles ; which, in the time of Juba, were very 

 partially, if at all, inhabited : on one island, indeed, Canaria, so called 

 from the huge dogs it contained, were found the remains of dwellings ; 

 but, on Ombrion, no vestiges of man appeared.* From the days of 

 antiquity, to the early part of the fourteenth century, the Canary Isles 

 were lost to the civilized world ; and their re-discovery was owing to the 

 shipwreck of a French vessel on the coast of one of them. They were 

 then inhabited, but the population has now utterly perished : at the 

 beginning of the sixteenth century, few or none were left to speak of the 

 avarice and cruelty of their merciless invaders. The extermination of the 

 Guanches, by the Spaniards, after a long struggle, is one of the fearful 

 tragedies of modern history, in which a Christian nation has acted a con- 

 spicuous and atrocious part. Of the origin of the Guanches we have no 

 authentic details : their name is said to have signified, in their own language, 

 the sons of men ; and they described themselves as the descendants of a 

 great and powerful people of antiquity. They were simple in their man- 

 ners, possessed of but few arts, believed in a future state, and in good and 



* These islands were respectively termed Ombrion, Junonia, Capraria, Nivaria, and Canaria. They 

 abounded in fruits, birds and beasts, and large lizards. 



