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in some had nothing of what is called the Negro 
type ; but I was still more astonished at their com- 
plexion, which was very different in different indivi- 
duals, being in some of a glossy black, and in others 
of a light copper, or rather rhubarb colour, the in- 
termediate shades being almost entirely wanting. 
Although the black shade seemed to prevail, I ar- 
rived at the conclusion that the copper colour was 
the original complexion of the tribe, the black shade 
being due to intermixture with surrounding nations. 
But the same variety of shades has been observed in 
many other tribes, as well on this continent as in Asia. 
Being allowed to stray about at my leisure, I ob- 
served in one house a really beautiful female in the 
prime of womanhood, who, with her son, a boy of 
about eight or nine years of age, formed a most 
charming group, well worthy of the hand of an 
accomplished artist. The boy's form did not yield 
in any respect to the beautiful symmetry of the 
most celebrated Grecian statues, as that of the 
praying boy, or that of the diskophoros. His legs 
and arms were adorned with strings of iron beads, 
such as I shall have occasion to describe more dis- 
tinctly further on, made in Wandala, which are 
generally worn by young people; his legs were as 
straight as possible : his hair, indeed, was very short, 
and curled, but not woolly. He, as well as his mo- 
ther and the whole family, were of a pale or yellow- 
ish-red complexion, like rhubarb. His mother, who 
was probably twenty-two years of age, was a little 
