CHAPTER XIL 
Communication of the Egyptians with the interior of Africa— Con- 
quest of many tribes in the interior — Sabaco, an Ethiopian prince, 
reigns over Egypt— Immigration of Copts into Ethiopia — Some 
of their customs adopted by the Abyssiuians— Analogies between 
many of the observances of Abyssinia and West African tribes — 
Religious rituals of the West Afiicans probably borrowed from 
the Egyptians— Order's of priesthood — Mysterious ceremonies asso- 
ciated with the priestly office —Secret religious societies of Africa 
— Offerings to the deities — Sacred animals — Customs connected 
with mourning for the dead — Yam festival, its apparent connexion 
with some Coptic ceremony — ^Various observances common to 
Egyptians, still met with among the West African tribes — Identity 
of design in many of their manufactures— Aggri beads found 
among several African tribes — Inferences to be deduced from all 
these circumstances. 
Numeeous and great indeed, have been the changes 
of ■weal or -woe that have taken place throughout the 
widely-extended family of mankind, since the distant 
period when Noah’s youngest son retired with that 
dreadful curse, “ A servant of servants shalt thou be 
but the proscribed race still bears with it, and is to bear 
yet longer, the utmost fulfilment of that malediction. 
Sunk and degraded in the scale of humanity, the 
