CHAPTER IV. 
GENERAL VIEW OF THE MORAL AND POLITICAL 
STATE OF AFRICA. 
The Population divided into Foreign and Native, — Moors. — - 
Native Barhary Races, — Copts, — Abyssinians — Native Afri^ 
ca. — Negroes, — Forms of Government, — Arts and Manufac- 
tures throughout Africa, — Commerce," — Caravans Slave 
Trade. — Tables illustrative of the Trade letuoeen Britain and 
AJrica. 
A CONTINENT, SO extensive as that of Africa, 
must necessarily be inhabited by a great diversity 
of nations. There is', in fact, no part of the globe 
where the human race appears under such a va- 
riety of striking and peculiar forms. It may be 
divided, in regard to population, into two great 
portions, separated from each other on the west 
by the river-line of the Senegal and Niger ; and 
on the east by the chain of the Mountains of the 
Moon. Africa, to the north of this line, is occu- 
pied, or at least ruled, by foreign races, who, tak- 
ing advantage of their superiority in arts and 
arms, have occupied all the fertile districts, and 
driven the original population into the mountains, 
the deserts, and the depths of the interior. Or? 
