16 THE REUNION OF MANKIND. 



customs, pursuits, and even, after a lapse of time, 

 in physical features. 



The same dispersing operation of opinion, but 

 more advanced, is to be observed in the separation, 

 at the present day, of the Dankalli and Soumaulee 

 tribes, and to any zealous student of the science of 

 all sciences, humanity, or the natural history of 

 man, it is indispensably necessary that he should 

 visit the countries of Abyssinia, of Sennaar, and 

 Adal, where he will find collected, as at a centre, 

 the originals of all the different varieties into 

 which physiologists have divided the human race ; 

 and where, at this moment, the principal causes of 

 the great moral change in the condition of man, con- 

 sequent upon the flood, may be observed in full opera- 

 tion, and producing the same effects of dispersion. 

 Christian civilization, which points to a future 

 union, is the antagonizing principle to the opinion 

 disturbing one, which, I believe, alone separates and 

 divides mankind ; and I could wish to see, here, in 

 intertropical Africa, a Mission of enlightened 

 ministers of the Gospel, whose object should be 

 simply to spread the easily understood doctrine of 

 one God, and that love and truth are the redeeming 

 principles in the character of man, to restore him 

 to that state of excellence from which he has 

 fallen. 



It being arranged I should stay at Garcia 

 Mulloo, a supply of bread and beer was ordered 

 by the misselanee, who had been sent for to see 

 after this duty ; the same officer of the town of 



