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where the Amazula, Bachapin, or CafTre population, never iare 

 built a house but of reeds and clay. 



In north-eastern Africa, an expansion similar to that in the 

 south is taking place : the Cushi, Kopths, Mauritanians, Abys- 

 sinians, and Arabs, gradually diminish or become absorbed; 

 the Negro races press forward, by the Bahar-el-abiad, upon 

 Egypt, and through the desert, upon Morocco, not so much by 

 conquest as by the increase of their numbers ; a result which 

 continued slavery only tends to hasten. Such also has been 

 the consequence in Hayti and in Central America; nor can 

 the evil effects impending over Brazil, and even over our own 

 colonies in the west, be avoided, but by timely liberal and 

 humane laws, aiding a true, zealous, and applicable system of 

 education. The really good qualities, and single-heartedness 

 of the Negro, may then be safely expected to evolve that quiet 

 cooperation and patriotic feeling which justice will teach him 

 to appreciate ; but the prejudices of colonists have still much 

 to retrace and to unlearn. Fear alone imparts moderation and 

 reason upon masses, who believe they derive an advantage 

 from injustice. 



Before concluding, we may mention here the gradations 

 through which intermixtures of the typical stocks are distin- 

 guished in the West India Islands. The offspring of a black and 

 a white parent is denominated a Mulatto; a black and a mulatto 

 produce a Sambo; a black and a sambo a Mungroo ; and a 

 black and a mungroo is again completely black. But, in this 

 case, the disturbance in the intellectual qualities is not again 

 obliterated ; it remains, to a considerable extent, of a more 

 developed character than in a true Negro of unmixed origin. 

 A mulatto, however, and a white generate a Quartroon ; 

 a quartroon and a white a Mestie ; and a mestie and a white 

 a complete white, having already, before the emancipation of 

 the slaves in all our colonies, the legal rights of a white man 

 of pure blood. Yet this class of persons still, in general, have 

 black and curly hair; the nails on the fingers remain darker 



