STATE OF AFRICA. 
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pear to display a superiority in external figure, as 
well as a character more energetic and intelligent. 
Other tribes display not the smallest vestige of that 
gentleness, which forms the usual characteristic of 
the Negro race. Admitting the picture which has 
been drawn of the Giagas, the Gallas, and the Da- 
homeys, to be deformed by some features of exag- 
geration, still it seems impossible to doubt, that, in 
rudeness and ferocity, they somewhat surpass the 
most savage tribes in any other quarter of the globe. 
The similarity, therefore, observable among the 
great mass of the Negro population, appears to be 
rather owing to their being placed in the same 
stage of civilization, and the same external circum- 
stances of soil and climate, than to any original 
character stamped upon the race. 
As we proceed to the southward, the Negro 
complexion fades gradually into the same brown or 
copper colour, which distinguishes the inhabitants 
of Northern Africa. The manners and institu- 
tions, however, of these southern tribes, materially 
differ from those on the opposite side of the conti- 
nent. The Boshuanas, the Caifres, and the Hot- 
tentots, form the leading divisions among the in- 
habitants of this part of Africa. Upon the subject 
of these tribes, there seems nothing to add to what 
has already been observed under the head of Tra- 
vels in Southern Africa. * 
* Book II. chap. v. 
