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The Telinjran comprises the natives of Eastern and Western Ilin- 

 dostan and Madagascar. 



The Ni irro race is the darkest of all. and is rivalled onlv by the 

 .tut in the close wooily texture of the hair. The absei 

 rigidity and of a divided apex of the cartilage of the nose is common 

 to this and tli i Malay, ami probably other races. j n Albinos, when 

 the skin resembles tbat of Europeans, the hair resembles "a white 

 fleece.'" The excellence of the] ear for muBic is proverbial; 



much of our popular music, which has been supposed to beof 

 origin, may probably be traced to a more distant and ancient Bource. 



In Egypt, Negroes are principally confined to Cairo and Alex- 

 andria, and are generally housi they do not engage in the 

 labors of agriculture, and they are not bo represented on the ancient 

 monuments. N figured principally in connexion with the 

 military campaigns of the Eighteenth Dynasty. One of this dynasty 

 (Thoulhmoais IV.) probably had a Degress fur his queen. He dues 

 not remember set nted on the anterior monuments, 

 nor indeed on those of much later date. He Bays, " I am not aware 

 of any fact contravening the assumption that Negro slavery may have 

 been <>1 modern origin; and th seems t" have been very 

 little known to the ancient < rreeks and Romans." The Soahili arc a 

 mixed race of N nd Whites, living at Zanzibar and other 

 localities; in the same island is also a mixed race of Negroes and 

 Malays. Among the people of Eastern Africa he could not 1 

 any pastoral Negroes, nor of Ethiopian cultivators. The Kafiers 

 "belong physically to the Negro 1 • 



opian race is intermediate between the Telingan and 



•ual appearance and in complexion. The hair is 



crisped, but fine, never wiry; the skin is suit, and the features 



Furopean-like. It occupies the hottest countries of Africa ; most of 



astoral, wandering, some of them in the recesses of 



I ireat Desert. The Nubians of the Nile, and some trihes bor- 



.iiia. lead an agricultural life. 



The Ethiopian race seems to have furnished the originals lor the 

 ancient monuments <d' Egypt, as late as the end of the Eighteenth 

 ty ; their manner of braiding and plaiting the hair is that 

 which prevails in the mummies. Most of the monarchs of this 

 dynasty were certainly of the White race, and subsequent to, if not 

 before this period, the Egyptians were regarded as a nation of the 

 White race; at the same time, there i.s abundanl evidence that some 

 of the Egyptian Pharaohs were physically Ethiopians. The Somali, 

 J) .kali, Galla, and M'Kuafi belong to the Ethiopian race. 



The Hottentot differs in physical race from the Negro, being of 



