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houses of an American town, the line being preserved by fences of 
the tall yellow tiger-grass of Uganda. There are also squares and 
open spaces, and the whole is kept in perfect order and neatness. 
The inner courts are entered by means of gates, each gate being 
kept by an officer, who permits no one to pass who has not the 
king’s permission. In case his vigilance should be evaded, each gate 
has a bell fastened to it on the inside. 
How the Negro has lived so many ages without advancing 
seems marvellous, when all the countries surrounding Africa are 
so forward in comparison. And, judging from the progressive state 
of the world, one is led to suppose that the African must soon either 
step out from his darkness, or be superseded by a being superior to 
himself. The African neither can help himself nor be helped by 
others, because his country is in such a constant state of turmoil 
that he has too much anxiety on hand looking out for his food to 
think of anything else. 
CHARACTER OF THE AFRICAN. 
As his fathers did, so does he. He works his wife, sells his 
children, enslaves all he can lay hands on, and, unless when fighting 
for the property of others, contents himself with drinking, singing, 
and dancing like a baboon, to drive dull care away. A few only 
make cotton cloth, or work in wool, iron, copper, or salt, their rule 
being to do as little as possible, and to store up nothing beyond the 
necessaries of the next season, lest their chiefs or neighbors should 
covet and take it from them. 
There are many kinds of food which the climate affords to 
anyone of ordinary industry, such as horned cattle, sheep, goats, 
pigs, fowls, ducks, and pigeons, not to mention the plantain and 
other vegetable products, and with such stores of food at his com¬ 
mand, it is surprising that the black man should be so often driven 
to feed on wild herbs and roots, dogs, cats, rats, snakes, lizards, 
insects, and other similar animals, and should be frequently found« 
on the point of starvation, and be compelled to sell his own children 
to procure food. 
Moreover, there are elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, buf- 
