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EGYPTIAN CONQUESTS. 
maj regard the coincidences as fair indications of the 
source from whence they were derived. 
Of the communications kept up by the Egyptians 
in the earliest ages with portions of the interior 
of Africa, there are too many records to leave any 
doubt; and it would seem that what was at first 
the field of commercial enterprize eventually became 
the scene of wrong and oppression. “ Many black 
nations were conquered by the early monarchs of 
the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties, as the 
Toreses, the Tareas, and another whose name is 
losf*^ as well as the Cush or Ethiopians. These last 
* Sir Gardner Wilkinson has here put a note, referring to a figure, 
No. 12, represented at page 385 of the first volume of his 1st series, 
as being the one illustrative of the tribe “ whose name is lost.” On 
looking at this, we were struck at once by the peculiar outline of 
physiognomy ; the thick lips, the manner of arranging the hide 
waist-wi'apper, the armlets, the appearance of beads round the 
neck; leaving but slight doubt of its having been a tribe of South- 
western or Central Africa* In coiToboration of this opinion, we find, 
at page 404, vol, i., hlack slaves, with their women and children, 
taken from a representation at Thebes. The features, hair, and mode 
of putting on the waist-covering of the male, exactly corresponds 
with the one referred to at page 385, vol. i,, while the loose waist- 
cloth of the female is narrow-striped, and worn precisely as obtains 
to the present time among neai'ly all the nations of Western Africa. 
The elongate, pendulous breasts of the mothers are truthfully shown, 
as also the beads round the necks of the women and children, and 
the waists of the latter, in whom the hair is shaven or dipt, so as to 
leave little bunches or patches, a custom observed to this day among 
all the tribes on the banks of the Niger, and many of the coast inha- 
bitants. The smaller children are shown to be carried by the 
mother in a sort of basket, which rests a posteriori,” a modification 
