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HISTORY OF THE [book ir. 
In their complexions and persons, the Mandin- 
goes are easily to be distinguished from such of the 
Africans as are born nearer to the equator; but they 
consist nevertheless of very distinct tribes, some of 
which are remarkably tall and black, and there is 
one tribe among them (called also the Foolah) that 
seems to me to constitute the link between the 
Moors and negroes properly so called. They are 
of a less glossy black than the Gold coast negroes;- 
and their hair, though bushy and crisped, is not 
woolly, but soft and silky to the touch. Neither 
have the Mandingoes, in common, the thick lips 
and flat noses of the more southern natives; and 
they are in a great degree, exempt from that 
strong and fetid odour, which exhales from the skirr 
of most of the latter; but in general they are not 
well adapted for hard labour A 
After all, they differ less in their persons, than 
in the qualities of the mind, from the natives of 
the Gold coast; who may be said to constitute 
the genuine and original unmixed negro, both in 
person and character, j.: 
J iieje Is a icmaikable anomaly of nature sometimes seen in the 
children born of negro women by black men. Their features ase 
those of the negro, but their complexions are white: not the white 
or the European, but a cadaverous paleness without any mixture of 
red, and their hair is of the same colour, though crisped asd woolly. 
I have inspected several of these poor creatures, and always found 
them weak sighted, and, in general, defective in understanding. These 
are the people called by the Spaniards Albinos ; but, that a nation of 
them exists in any part of the world, as asserted by Voltaire, I do not 
believe. 
