242 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
tan to ufe fome efforts to banifli them, from his dominions,) 
and the offspring of thofe whofe parents have emigrated, 
and who are themfelves born in Dar-Fur. The latter are often 
people of debauched manners, and not remarkable for the 
fame fpirit of enterprife as the adlual emigrates. Gradually- 
formed to the defpotifm which coerces their external de- 
portment, and feeks to crufh and fterilize even the feeds of 
energy, fomewhat of the fpirit of their progenitors yet remains : 
the affedions indeed are turned afkance, but not eradicated. The 
puflies that fliould have been made ad auras athereas^ oppofed 
revert to Tartarus. The luxurlancy of mental vigour, though 
repulfed and forcibly inverted, ftill extends its ramifications. 
Its pallefcent ihoots pierce the dunghill, when not permitted to 
open themfelves to the influence of the fun. The adive mind 
may defcend to brutal fenfuality, when it can no longer expand 
itfelf in a more fane exercife. 
The people firft mentioned commonly among themfelves 
ufe the language of Barabra, though they alfo fpeak Arabic. 
The latter are generally unacquainted with any language but 
the Arabic. They ufually intermarry with each other, or with 
the Arabs. Some of them avoid marrying, and cohabit only 
with their flaves, feldom taking to wife a Furian woman. Both 
thefe defcriptions of men are eafily diftinguifhable from the 
natives of the country *, being ufually of a more olive com- 
* On the Ea(l of Fur there is a particular tribe of Arabs, who curl their hair, 
as it were, in a bufhy wig, refembling that of the antient figures in the ruins of 
Perfepolis. It is probable that many fragments of antient nations may be found 
in the interior of Africa. Carthaginians expelled by the Romans, Vandals by 
Belifarius, &c. &c. 
plexion, 
