0(3 PHYSICAL INVESTIGATION. [PART I. 



western Fulahs, and have, excepting their small features, hands 

 and feet and the high forehead, little resemblance to the Fulahs 

 of the west. 1 Generally speaking, the different aspect of the 

 Fulahs in the interior of Africa corresponds closely with the 

 degrees of civilization and the social relations in which they 

 live, and cannot be explained by an assumed intermixture with 

 the Negro-race. Between the inhabitants of the southern and 

 northern King's-Mill-Islands (Mikronesia), there exists equally 

 a great difference both externally and in character, and there is 

 no reason to suppose that they are of different stocks. The 

 latter live in peace, and have abundant food, which is not the 

 case as regards the former. 2 



The argument in favour of the power of such conditions fur- 

 nished by the Barabra in Nubia, is however exposed to many 

 objections, the Barabra are described as of a shining black, but 

 otherwise not at all negro-like. They have thin, curly, but not 

 woolly hair, a pointed nose with large nostrils, a large mouth, and 

 but moderately thick lips. Nevertheless, they speak, according 

 to Eiippel, 3 a Negro language, which with its dialects extends 

 over the whole country from Dongola to Kordofan. This 

 language prevails also in Darfur ; 4 and it seems, therefore, as 

 Cooley, 5 following Ibn Khaldun, observes, that the people of 

 the Barabra are of Negro descent, like the native population 

 of Kordofan and Darfur; but that in consequence of agri- 

 culture, trade, and a higher civilization, the features have 

 gradually improved, which is also asserted of other negro 

 tribes as the effect of the introduction of Islamism. 6 Opposed 

 to this view, is the circumstance, that the Nubians have 

 been described by the ancient Arab geographers as a fine 

 race of men, not at all negro-like; 7 and that particularly 

 the present province Berber had been conquered under 

 the fourth Kalif after Mohammed by Abadja Arabs, who 

 came from Jemen, and the present Barabra are said to 



1 Barth., " Reisen u. Entdecktmgen," ii, p. 476. 



2 Wilkes, "Narrative of the U.S. Explor. Exped.," v,p. 107, Philad., 1845. 



3 " R. in Nubien, Kordofan," p. 126, 1829. 



4 Burckhardt, " R. in Nubien," p. 486, 1820. 

 .-> "Negroland of the Arabs," p. 118, 1841. 



fi Compare Prichard, ii, p. 342. 



< " Isthakri," p. 21. ; " Cod. Goth. Idrisi trad. p. Jaubert," i, p. 25. 



