398 VARIOUS DESIGNATIONS. 



mean the Mediterranean, so called by Arabian 

 geographers, from being supposed to belong to 

 the white people. The red people, again, were the 

 Asiatics, the Assyrians of Jewish historians; and 

 the sea which separated them from Tokruree, or 

 Africa, was, and is called to the present day, the 

 Red Sea, from the reason of its being situated 

 upon the borders of a country inhabited by a red 

 race of men ; whilst the black people, had also 

 their particular sea, which is that which inter- 

 venes between India and Zanzibar, and which 

 still bears that name in Arabic and Indian 

 geographies. This simple division of the earth 

 seems to have been the popular idea of ethnology 

 at a very early period ; for all the various names of 

 Alps, Albania, Albion, and numerous others, of 

 Latin and Greek combination, having reference to 

 this colour, prove that the ancient designation of 

 Europeans was "the whites," and which appears to 

 have been as general and as familiar a term to use, 

 as is the word blacks, or Negroes, or Tokruree, when, 

 at the present day, we speak of those coloured 

 inhabitants of Africa ; whilst on the other hand the 

 derivation of Asia from Assa, a word which signifies 

 red, is both easy and natural. Of the word Tokruree, 

 and its Geez signification, my reader must be well 

 aware that it means blacks, or Negroes, and is 

 the significant and expressive designation of those 

 people. 



After some more conversation upon the same 



