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Africa. "\ I't , thouijli jn (Jiis \vn\' >u]ierioi' raci-'s cdniiiin' iVoui tlip mure 

 arid i-oniitrie^ ol' Stiullicni Ali\'^siiiia and /(ialalaiid lune coiitiimallv 

 li'awiied the iiias< of nL;l\' Xi'm'di-'s jnilliilal Jul;- in ^(lic laclilv endowed 

 t'(_)niiti'ie> l.ii'fween and arouml tln^ Nile lakes, it is \er\- doulitf'ul wliethei' 

 the aneient KL,'V]itians e\'er peneliated directlv up tlie Nile lit'\oiid the 

 \ieinil\' of l''aslio(la. oi' had an\' diieet intercourse with 1 t(anda. (tliou<j;h 

 I heir traders 7na\' ha\'e gone south-wesi wai'd towai'ds thr ]'>ahi'-al-( iha/af J. 

 l\athei' it would seem as (hoiigli ancient ]<'L;'\|jt traded and coinniuiiicated 

 directlv with whal is now Alns^inia and the Land of I'lrnt (Sonialiland), 

 aial that the Ihiniitic ]ioo]ilcs (if I he~e cciuntiies fticing tlie l\ed Sea and 

 Indian ()(_ean earrit-'d <i small mea.-nre of I*'e\ptian culture into the lands 

 alxiut the .Nile lakes. In this «av. and (hi-ough L'ganda a^ a half-way 

 hon^e. the tottillv savage Negro received his knowledge of smelling and 

 working iron, all his dome-tic tinimals and cidti\ated [ilants (except those, 

 of cotirse, snliseijucntl V inlroducril In- Aralis fr(an Asia and Tort nguese from 

 America), all his musical iiistriunents higher in dexclopmenf than the 

 ■-ingle hiowstring and the resonant hollowed log, and, in short, all tlie 

 ci\ili-atit)n he p(]ssessed hief'ore the coming of the white man — ^loslem 



or ( 'hristian--] ,()()() years ;igo. I'he 

 e-talilishment liy sea of ^'ohl-workiug 

 colonies of South Araliitms in Southern 

 Zamliezia, that commenced to take 

 jilace perhaps :j,,50t) }ears ago, in- 

 troduced a local civilisatioir wdiich 

 did not spread to any ajipreciable 

 extent, perhaps l)ecaus(." it was planted 

 among Inaitish Jlottentots and apish 

 J'nshmen. These Sahtean colonies 

 in South-ltastern Afrieti were finally 

 s\vam]ie(l between the fifth and 

 sexcnth centuries of the ])resenf era 

 h\' the ]'anfti — tit ;inv rate by the 

 Zulu — in\-;ision of Southern Afi'ica. 

 'i'lieir influenci% from \vh:ite\'er cause,''' 



''■ Perlifqis hccatisi' the trend of Negro 



am] nc,L;r<ii(l niin'ratioiis a,ii(l race iiiove- 



iiiciits lias always hceii — with only two 



w (.-Ibkiiow II (■xcejitioris — the eastward 



iiiarrh of the Fiilahs and the iiertliwanl 



■ ■' ■ raids (if the Zuhts- from north to south 



■.>;;i and from cast to west, and it would he 



. '.? (lifKcidt fia- hireigii iiiHueiice to travel 



V MriuMA (ii iviiMii;!! fi.Ljauist thc (aiiiei 1 1. 



