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white stock forming the most western branches, such as the 

 ancient Numidian, and present Caffres and Gallas. 



In consequence of the deep-rooted hatred of the Caucasian 

 races towards the typical Negro, we find those frequent allu- 

 sions to purity of blood in the Arabian clans of the desert. It 

 is the whole question whereon the poem of Antar hinges; for 

 co. or alone is not the cause, since Bedoween tribes are, in 

 many instances, exceedingly dark, from the Euphrates to the 

 west coast of Morocco ; and the Tarikh Tebry endeavors to 

 account for it in the legend, which relates how the ancient 

 Arabians were fair and blue-eyed, but so wicked that they 

 would not hearken to the prophet Salah. Miraculous omens 

 had no effect, until, at last, they were converted, in one day, 

 from white to red, and, in the next, to black. This tale may 

 be the reminiscence of Scythian inroads and conquest, such as 

 were effected by the giants of the Pentateuch, who, inferior in 

 number, were gradually absorbed by the predominant race ; and, 

 though masters (for the master race, in Oriental relations, is, 

 in general, the only object of record), became dark in their 

 descent, and were mostly driven across the Red Sea. The 

 northern infusion was repeated more than once; and, besides 

 Egyptian history, we have the Geta and Arabians confounded 

 by classical writers, as we shall notice in the sequel. 



The Cushites* of antiquity, confounded in many cases with 

 the Joktanites, correspond, with scarce an exception, to the 

 Ethiopians, as we here notice them : the regions of Cnsha 

 Dwipa within, and Cusha Dioipa without, of Hindoo geography, 

 exactly represent Asiatic and African Ethiopia ; and the names 

 of Iliopiawan and Itiopia, by which the Abyssinians still desig- 



* Chus, Cush, Cuth, according to Jacob Bryant and Holwell, is derived 

 from outlet, a how, still the chief weapon of all the wild mountain races 

 of India, the instrument they used to achieve the death of opposing demi- 

 gods, and, till lately, arming them as the guards of rajahs and princes, 

 who tc;k t:em into their service. Goosch, in India, still denotes a 

 robber. 



