102 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



time of Abraham — mention is made in hiero- 

 glyphic writings of Black or Negro troops 

 being raised by an Egyptian king, to assist 

 him in the prosecution of a great war. * 



Since, then, the Negro race was already, 

 in the days of Abraham, just what it is 

 now, what is the time we must allow for 

 the development of this variety of Man, 

 supposing it to have descended from a 

 common stock } We have absolutely no 

 measurement of time by which to estimate 

 the growth of such varieties. We know 

 that changes of climate and of food do 



* Drawings by the skilful hands of Mr. Bonomi are given 

 on p. 10 1 and on the Frontispiece in illustration of the facts stated 

 in the text. They are taken from an Egyptian temple at 

 Beyt-el-Welee, in Nubia, of the reign of Rameses II., son 

 and Bucccssor of Scthos I. 



