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ward, may be surmised, from the Phoenician navigators, who 

 reached that coast by the Atlantic, not mentioning the presence 

 of real human beings to the south of Cape Blanco, since they 

 brought back to Carthage specimens or skins of the Chim- 

 panzee, which at no time could exist to the north of the great 

 rivers, where alone there are trees and food. The abnormal are 

 portrayed on Egyptian temples, often repeated, with great bushy 

 heads ; but real Negroes may be alone intended in the figures 

 of black human victims, significantly offered to a Python god. 

 In Asia the circumstances were different; to this time the 

 Hubbashee clans of real Negroes exist in Laristan and 

 Mekran, in Persia, and even on the Ilelmund ; and are evi- 

 dently of the primitive race, to the south of the Himalaya 

 chain as well as Southern Persia.* This type forms the 

 primaeval inhabitants of the Australasian and many tropical 

 islands, although they have been rooted out or subdued to form 

 a low cast of slaves in most of them ; and notwithstanding that a 

 remote idolatry, of Papuan origin, can still be traced out in parts 

 of India, and sovereign families even claim descent from monkey 

 gods, that is, from primaeval Bheels, the worship has changed 

 to Brahmanism, and the ruling dynasties are now of high caste 

 Caucasians, as will be shown in the sequel. Only, in the larger 

 islands, the Papua tribes are in general still found masters of 

 the central mountain forests. Rarely, however, is this branch 

 of the Negro stock equal in stature and vigor to the African. 



* Professor Wilson, in his notice of the animals, &c., mentioned by 

 Ctesias, gives some account of the Kalestrii ; and in my manuscript note 

 upon it, I find, that "there were other tribes, higher up the country, and 

 nearer the sources of the Indus, who were very black, drank no water nor 

 ate corn, but lived on the milk of their flocks." These were, perhaps, 

 the typical Asoors or Azuras of Hindoo mythology. Abulghazi speaks 

 of black people residing between the Hylas (Cabul ?) and the Indus, 

 (vol. i., p. 15.) The present Aghori, by Ctesias named Andropophogoi, 

 and by the Persians Mardikohr, still occasionally feed on putrid human 

 flesh, and reside in caverns about Aboo, among the Jains. They cannot 

 well be Caucasians, nor are they Mongoles. 



