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in their complexion of dufky brown, dark hair and eyes, 
lips fometimes thick, but the nofe as often aquiline, and other 
marks of a total diffimilitude between them and the negro 
race. 
The black complexion of the Africans feems to extend much 
farther North in the Weftern, than in the Eaftern part of the 
continent they inhabit. The people of Fezzan, whofe capital is 
in latitude 27° 48" or about 2° 10" to the South of Kahira, 
are black, while the Egyptians, in the fame latitude, are only of 
brown or olive colour. The Fezzaners, however, have not en- 
tirely the negro feature. They have frequently children by 
their negro flaves, the Egyptians but feldom. The ifland, near 
Aifuan, confifts chiefly of blacks ; but the townfmen of AlTuan 
are of a red colour, and have the features of the Nubians, Bci- 
rabra^ whofe language they alfo willingly fpeak. The people 
pf El-wah are quite of Egyptian or Arab complexion and fea- 
ture, none of them black : fo that I fcarcely conceived myfelf 
to have arrived at the confines of the blacks, till we reached the 
firft inhabited part of Dar-Fur. The firft I faw are called 
Zeghawa ; they are not negroes, but a diftin(St race. The 
Arabs of this empire remain always very diftinguifhable in 
colour and feature. The people of Harrd^a are of a reddifh 
complexion. Perhaps this being a very mountainous diftridl 
may 
