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into the Poulah and Jaloffs, who, alone among the Negroes, 

 have horses and camels. 



THE SUAKIM. 



East and south of the Nile this great stem seems to pass 

 into Suakirn troglodytes, who are referred to the ancient 

 Kahtan Arabs, black by blood, which, if it be correctly viewed, 

 the filiation of this branch of the Ethiopian stem is marked 

 out from beyond the Indus to the west coast of Morocco. 

 To the troglodyte race belong the Ababde, mistaken for Arabs, 

 though they have the Negro mouth and color, occupying a 

 great space between the Red Sea and the Nile. They are 

 conductors of caravans from Sennaar, and spoken of with 

 approbation. 



The Gomera, a relic of an almost extinct and unknown 

 people, still occupy a portion of the district of Rif in Morocco, 

 living in harmony with the Shelluhs, and possibly descended 

 from those marine Celts, who, in early ages, came down the 

 coasts of Africa, where they left the cairns, peulvans, and 

 cromlechs, which the Romans at more than one place called 

 Philamicm altars, particularly those found near Cyrene, and on 

 the salt lake ; and there is another, distinguished by the name 

 of El-Uted (the Peg), still existing on the Aguache river, in 

 Barbary. It is perhaps also this tribe of Gomera who speak a 

 Celtic dialect, said to be still intelligible to Welsh seamen, and 

 asserted to be likewise understood on the south-west coast of 

 Spain and Portugal. They are graziers ; and it may be 

 observed, that, in Sanscrit, Gomed denotes an ox; Gomera, in 

 this case, like Gwalla in Asia, and Galla in Africa, being 

 denominations for oxman, neatherd. 



