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THE TUARIKHS. 



Though both the Tibboos and Tuarikhs are nearly pure 

 Caucasians, we notice them here on account of the remote 

 antiquity they claim, and the thrifty character they bear; the 

 last mentioned, in particular, are habitually engaged in 

 marauding to make slaves for sale, or in commercial transac- 

 tions at annual fairs, and conducting caravans to the nations 

 of Soudan, Bornou, and Timbuctoo. The language they 

 speak is not Arabic, is as yet little known, the natives assert- 

 ing it to be the most ancient in the world. If the Roman 

 Numidians still retain a national existence, it is perhaps 

 among these tribes that they should be sought. The Tibboos, 

 residing in the middle of Negro tribes, between Fez and Bor- 

 nou, are partly nomads, hospitable and moderate beyond all 

 other tenants of the desert. 



We may place here the gypsy tribes, the Zingari, Zigeuner 

 of Germany, Bohemians of the French, Karashu of Kurdistan, 

 who, notwithstanding they speak a dialect of Hindoostan, and 

 betray by their color a positive intermixture with Papua blood, 

 have nevertheless the crania of Asiatic Finns, and are known 

 to have dwelt among the southernmost tribes of that stem 

 before they came towards the west. As they may have 

 detected Finnic words in the Cophtic, since Klaproth discovered 

 several in the ancient language of Egypt, there is some reason 

 for the claim set up by these roving families for affinity with a 

 Nilotic population, since they have a similar right to that of 

 Persia and Bokhara, and kindred tribes are among the wan- 

 derers of Northern Africa. They are, indeed, first observed to 

 have traversed portions of Southern Tahtary. Some visited 

 Armenia, Syria, ond Egypt; and others, about the year 1400, 

 passed onwards through Poland to Bohemia, and finally 

 extended to England and Spain. 



We have hitherto shown how typical and aberrant races of 



