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but little to my previous information, upon the 

 subject of their character and country. I noticed 

 there were no Dankalli among those brought 

 down for my inspection ; and was given to under- 

 stand that none of these people were ever brought 

 into Abyssinia as slaves ; and if they were, no one 

 would purchase them, for they would neither 

 remain with their masters, nor would they 

 work. Even in this, their true Circassian origin 

 is betrayed ; for, although their morality does not 

 prevent them from selling their own daughters, 

 this caste of mankind cannot be enslaved. The 

 superiority of this mentally endowed race is 

 manifest, even in their most barbarous state; and 

 I have been led, therefore, to disbelieve the 

 general presumption, that the Negro is uni- 

 versally the type of man in his most degraded 

 condition. From what I have observed myself, 

 the Dankalli, the Shankalli, and the Bush- 

 men, are the lowest grades of the three varieties 

 of the human race, the Arian, or Circassian, the 

 Amhara, or Negro, and the Gonga, or Mongolian, 

 all of whom have a height of civilization, and a 

 depth of barbarism distinct from each other ; and 

 that, however, the Bushman may be improved, he 

 will only become a civilized Chinese, and that a 

 Negro may by education be made an ancient Egyp- 

 tian, but would never by that alone become the 

 enlightened Circassian, that his neighbour, the 

 Dankalli, could, certainly, be made. 



