220 BARTH ON SOCIETY IN NORTHERN CENTRAL AFRICA. [May 10, 1858. 
Again, there is the instance I have given of the Spaniards who have been 300 
years settled in various parts of America, sometimes on the table land of the 
Andes, and sometimes upon the very level of the sea, almost on the Equator ; 
they are the same complexion that they were when they quitted Aragon and 
Andalusia. Then there are the Parsees of Hindostan. They migrated from 
Persia about one thousand years ago. They have kept themselves free from 
admixture with the Indians, and they are as fair at this day as when they left 
the mountains of Persia, although they are settled at Bombay in the 18 th degree 
of latitude. Mention has been made of the Jews who have settled in India. 
There are two classes of Jews. There are the white Jews, who have kept them- 
selves pure, and who at this day, though settled as far down in Hindostan as the 
Deccan, in the 18th degree of latitude, are as fair as the Jews in Palestine. 
But, then, there are what are called black Jews. These are converts, the de- 
scendants of people that have mixed with the lowest classes of the Hindoos, 
and they are properly speaking of the Hindoo race. There is no such thing 
as a change of complexion on their part. The white Jews are as white as 
when they left Palestine, and the black Jews are as black as the rest of the 
Hindoos, of which stock they are composed. The same may be said of the 
Portuguese. It is said, — See how black the Portuguese have become in India ! 
Hot at all. The Portuguese who have kept themselves pure from Indian ad- 
mixture are as fair as Portuguese in Portugal. Those who usually go under 
the name of Portuguese are converted Hindoos with Portuguese names. They 
are of the lowest castes of Hindoos ; and very often they are blacker than the 
ordinary race of Hindoos. Depend upon it neither the form nor the com- 
plexion is changed by climate. 
Dr. Worthington. — I beg to say that Mr. Crawfurd is contradicted in 
that opinion by most of the travellers that I have spoken to on the subject. 
The Arabs and Jews are justly admitted to be the two nations that never 
mingle with others. Yet we have black Arabs of the Jordan ; and we have 
black Jews in Hindostan, retaining, in every possible character except the 
complexion, the Jewish physiognomy ; and what is more, retaining records of 
their race which stamp them to be Jews at the dispersion. 
ADDITIONAL NOTICES. 
1. Memoir e sur le Soudan. Par M. le Comte d’Escayrac de Lauture. 
Paris, 1855-6. 
The French conquest of Algeria has eminently directed the attention of 
French geographers to the exploration of the interior of the African continent, 
and within the last quarter of a century important additions have certainly 
been made to our knowledge of that widely extended region. The work before 
us is a resume of what is known concerning that part of Central Africa 
between Lake Chad on the west, and Ivordofan on the east, comprising a 
part of Bornu, the territories of Bagharmi, Wadai, and Darfur, and some 
others of less consideration; it has been mainly extracted from the ‘Bulletin 
de la Societe de Geographie.’ It is accompanied by a chart, embracing the 
countries between lat. 6° and 16° n., and long. 13° 20 and 31° 20 e., and 
on which the various routes which have been followed by travellers there are 
laid down. The same chart includes a portion of the course of the White 
