492 THEIR PROBABLE ORIGIN. 



and as superior as ourselves to their negro neigh- 

 bours the Shankalli. These three very different 

 people, represent three grades of intellectual power, 

 which may be expressed as genius, cunning, and 

 simplicity, of which the Dankalli constitute the 

 type of the superior rank. 



When I reflect upon the striking contrast 

 exhibited in the very different characters of the 

 Dankalli and Shankalli people, the pressure from 

 without of observed facts incline me to a system 

 of mankind-lore different entirely from any yet 

 advanced, but which it would be presumption in me 

 to put forward, until increasing years and further 

 observation give weight to the opinions of one 

 who at present is merely an humble, but zealous, 

 inquirer after truth. Adapting myself therefore, 

 as much as possible to the generally received ideas 

 upon the national divisions of man at an early 

 period, I am led to suppose that the Dankalli are 

 the remains of a once great and powerful people, 

 the vices of whom have outlived the period of their 

 decline as a nation, and now characterize their 

 descendants in a situation where they are reduced 

 to a state of nature corresponding, except in these 

 resulting consequences of previous civilization, to 

 that of the real child of uncultivated nature, the 

 happy, contented, good-natured Shankalli. 



END OF VOL. I. 



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