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nations, such as Cutchccs, Bheels, Bindcrwars, Paharias of 

 Bhangulpoor, and Mongheer, who arc complete Papuas ; there 

 are the Sedies of Canara, Dacoits of Bengal, Ghonds of Ghond- 

 wana, Koolies or Kholes, Lurka Kholes, Cookies or Nagas of 

 Indo-China; Bedas or Vedas of Ceylon, t5co. In Persia are 

 the Hubbashie and Mekran tish-eaters; and the Jamaules, near 

 Aden, and the Ovahs of Madagascar, are partially mixed races. 

 The most aberrant of all are, however, the Houswana 

 nations, the Hottentots, Bushmen, Coranas, &zc, all of a lemon 

 peel or dirty yellow color, and often with strange peculiarities 

 of form; speaking dialects inimitably articulated, and possibly 

 forming a hybrid race of Mongolo-Papuan origin; one flung 

 abroad at so remote a period, as to have preceded both the 

 true woolly-haired tribes, the Ethiopian, and the Caucasian 

 nations, since they, together with the Ompizee of Madagascar, 

 a portion of the inhabitants of Fernando Po, and the ancient 

 Guanches of Teneriffe and the islands of the west coast, seem 

 to have belonged to the same origin, and to have been driven 

 off in all directions by the Negroes who succeeded them;* 

 until, at a later period, they effected interunions, which form 

 some of the modifications among the black tribes, and consti- 

 tute the existing populations above named. That certain 

 tribes, of a partially civilized race, preexisted in the present 

 Caffraria, is even proved by the rectangular stone walls of old 

 Leetakoo (Lectakoon, in the Caffre dialects, denoting the old 

 stone buildings), the ruins of which still remain, in a country 



Nagoes, Puharees, Mcnas, and, perhaps, Galla ; for in India the Gwalla, 

 or grazier profession, is the same as that of the African Gallas, who also 

 hear another Asiatic and their true name of Sidana. Gal, Gail, in Cel- 

 tic, moreover, denotes a stranger or wanderer, therefore radically also a 

 nomad. 



* To this expelled sallow people may be ascribed also the iuins of 

 houses, which are reported to have been still visible in the Canary Islands, 

 at the commencement of the ninth century ; as related by the Irish Monk 

 Dicuil, in his curious work, " De Mensusa Orbis Terrae." He wrote in 

 the year 829, and is better known by the name of the "Anonymous of 

 Ravenna." 



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