142 OBSERVATIONS ON EGYPTIAN ETHNOGRAPHY, 
It is in that mixed family of nations which I have called Austral-Egyptian that we 
should expect to meet with the strongest evidence of Hindoo lineage; and here, again, 
we can only institute adequate comparisons by reference to the 
works of Champollion and Rosellini, I observe the Hindoo 
style of features in several of the royal effigies, and in none more 
decidedly than in the head of Asharramon, as sculptured in the 
temple of Debéd, in Nubia. The date of this king has not yet 
been ascertained; but as he ruled over Meroé, and not in Egypt, 
(probably in Ptolemaic times,) he may be regarded as a good 
illustration of at least one modification of the ‘Austral Egyptian 
: type. 
Another set of features, but little different, however, from the preceding, is seen among 
the middling class of Egyptians as pictured on the monu- 
ments, and these I also refer to the Hindoo type. ‘Take, for 
example, the four annexed outlines, copied from a sculptured 
fragment preserved in the museum of Turin. These effi- 
gies may be said to be essentially Egyptian; but do they 
not forcibly remind us of the Hindoo?* The mummied 
head figured Plate X., Fig. 6, has the same general form 
and cast of features. 
The Hindoos are also represented on the monuments as prisoners and tribute-bearers 
to the kings. My drawing, Plate XIV., Fig. 21, is copied from the “ Grand Procession”’ 
of Thotmes IV. The man leads a bear; an indication that he is of a foreign country, 
for there are no bears indigenous to Africa. Moreover, the characters of the animal, as 
delineated in Rosellini, are not unlike those of the celebrated grotesque species of India 
called by naturalists Ursus labiatus, which has been, in all ages, a favourite with Hindoo 
mountebanks. The man himself has an aquiline and pointed nose, thin beard, receding 
forehead, and comparatively fair complexion, which assimilate him to some Indo-Semitic 
or Indo-Persian tribe. 
In the same celebrated scene I notice another head of the same general cast, but of a 
darker complexion and more delicate features, who answers yet more accurately to the 
type of the northern Hindoos. He wears a light dress and grass 
hat, and moreover leads an elephant, all of which point to a 
warm climate. Mr. Hoskins remarks that “the elephant must 
be from Ethiopia: if, therefore, they [the attendants] are Scy- 
thians, as some suppose, they must be employed as slaves bring- 
ing the produce of Ethiopia.” And he concludes by suggesting 
that they may be white slaves of the latter country, sent as a 
present to the Egyptian king. This appears to me to be an 
involved and unsatisfactory explanation. The elephant, like the 
bear, is obviously an Asiatic animal, (for the Egyptians made no 
use of the living native species,) and it is evident that this group is merely typical of 
some conquered Hindoo nation, or proximate and cognate tribe. 
* Rosellini, M. S. Il., p. 174, 288. 
