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of the Negro : the hair, whenever I can see it among the people here, is 

 curled ; not like that of the Negroes, but like the Mulattoes." 



Among the African races usually comprehended under the term Negro, 

 or Ethiopian (which latter term, in the sense in which it is used by most 

 writers, is highly objectionable), are to be found numerous grades and 

 varieties ; and many, except in colour, can no more be referred to the 

 Negro stock, than can the Copt, the Abyssin, the Galla, or the Berber.* 

 The characters of the genuine Negro race of Mozambique, and especially of 

 Guinea, are as follow : a black complexion, with black and woolly hair ; 

 thick protruding lips ; prominent narrow eyes ; a retreating chin ; the incisor 

 teeth having an oblique direction ; a low, flat nose, depressed and spreading 

 at the nostrils; a meagre calf, seated high on bowed shanks ; a projecting 

 heel ; high shoulders ; and the skull compressed laterally, and elongated ; the 

 forehead being low, depressed, narrow, and retreating. The annexed 

 figure (214) is the portrait of a genuine Negro, in which the charac- 

 teristic physiognomy is admirably delineated. Our knowledge of the 

 indigenous races of Africa is yet in its infancy : but, we have reason 



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Negro, 



* The Berber tribes, which live 700 miles south of Algiers, in the remote parts of Atlantica, and 

 towards the Great Desert, differ much, both in colour and countenance, from the northern Berbers ; 

 they are black, and approach the Negro both in hair and features : such are the Aith-Eregaiah, and 

 the Aith-Ouergelah, according to the testimony of Mr. Hodgson. 



