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element which formed the Aurite population of Upper Egypt, 

 for they still retain peculiarities of structure observed in the 

 present Malabars.* Others, less swarthy, were colonists of 

 Lower Egypt, constituting- the Misr population, of whose 

 progress we have already adduced proofs, by the plants and 

 animals which they could not have possessed, but by depart- 

 ing originally from High Asia, and, subsequently, from the 

 vicinity of the upper Indus ; and the further progress they 

 made is likewise to be traced by the symbolical lions in their 

 sculptures being invariably maneless ; a character which marks 

 \he variety of that formidable animal existing only in the 

 southern portions of ancient Sindh, Persia and Arabia; while 

 the typical species, if the symbol had been adopted from the 

 African, would most assuredly have been figured with a huge 

 mane. 



Some hordes had preceded them across the Nile, to form 

 a portion of the Mauri tanian and Nubian populations, which, 

 we have already shown, were in part driven by the Arabs, at 

 a later period, across the Sahara, to commix with the Negroes 

 on the Gambia, and are now Poulas, JalofTs, and Mandingos. 

 Others departing by sea, probably from Ceylon, reached as far 

 as Madagascar, where they found already the Ompizce canni- 

 bals, while they formed themselves the tribes of black Malgash 

 Voalzis, Ondeva of the present time. These were followed 

 by Semitic clans of Indo-Arabs, whose kindred we have seen 

 in the Australian Islands, and who, on the shores of 'eastern 

 Africa, commenced, under the names of Joasmees and Jacal- 

 vas, the same profession of pirates. These, in common with 

 the Habesh, influenced the whole of the south with opinions 



limit of the Ethiopian extension, that is, as far as the boundaries of the 

 date tree and the habitation of the ostrich. 



* Among others the large eyes and long legs, which may be the origin 

 of the legend of the Mucroceli, Tala-gangha, a tribe of ancient India ; 

 but we think the present Catties of Kutch are descended from conquering 

 Cathai of High Asia, giving the name, and forming the master tribe of 

 the original Papua Aurites along the coast. 



