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the very fact of Solomon being obliged to employ Hiram, 
King of Tyre, is a proof of his superior civilization. 
Commerce, too, originated with the same race. Long be- 
fore the celebrated ship Argo (the first effort of the white) 
ploughed the deep, the merchants of Tyre and Carthage had 
even then visited the remote shores of Britain, and given it 
the present name, Prit-tan, island of tin. They had perhaps 
circumnavigated Africa, had penetrated the regions of the 
East, and, with their caravans, passed the burning deserts, 
which, with all their fiery dangers, could not arrest their 
enterprising course. We cannot, therefore, but regard the 
Hametic race as the fathers and founders of much which 
elevates and enlarges the mind of man, and renders him the 
lord of the creation. 
More might be said of their subduing animals to maps 
use, the horse, camel, and bulky elephant, as well as the 
dog and cat, making them the sharers of his hearth ; the 
cow, the sheep, and domestic fowl, he rendered subservient 
to his will. In a later day the Peruvians tamed the llama 
and alpaca, and so with the Egyptian share the honour of 
domesticating animals. Even their wars were made to aid 
the purpose of civilization, by instructing those they subjected 
to their rule. 
Cadmus and Pelops were coloured missionaries to the 
white, they carried the arts and sciences of Egypt into Greece, 
and the first dawn of regeneration came to the children of 
Japhet from those of Ham ; the barbarous Pelasgi received 
their rudiments of civilization from Egyptian teachers. 
It is interesting to try and form some idea of the probable 
range of influence exercised by the coloured race in ancient 
times. Commencing with Ham, we have his four sons, Cush, 
Misraim, Phut, and Canaan. Ham appears to have been the 
builder of Babel, but his descendant, Nimrod, became the 
grand founder of that earliest kingdom, and builder of many 
of its celebrated monuments. Hence the Hametic race may 
have extended by Cush into India, and there laid the 
foundation of Indian civilization, where much of their religion, 
the worship of the cow, the same order and number of castes 
