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nature's dividing line between two distinct peoples. North of these wonderful mountains the languages are numerous and quite distinct, and lacking affinity. For centuries these tribes have lived in the same latitude, under the same climatic influences, and yet, without a written standard, hav

ence between the northern and southern tribes only linguistic. The physiological difference between these people is great. They range in colo

ir hair is longer: that of the women hangs down in long braids to their shoulders, while the men have tolerably long

meets with typical Negroes; and there again, as one reac

are exquisitely small; and in every way they form a contrast with the slaves of th

iopian, the intermediate, and the Negro. In the same m

intelligent minds, courteous and polished manners. Such are the Mpongwe of the Gaboon, the Angolese, the F

broader noses, but seldom prognathous to any great degree. Such are the Wollof, the Kru-men, the Benga of Corisco, and the Cabi

ary to re-describe. They are found chiefly along the coast between the Casemanche and Sierra Leone, between Lago

will not have to prove to any great extent. It is a fact as well

the abdomen tumid, the stature stunted, and the intellectual and moral character low and degraded. They rarely attain what in more wholesome regions would be considered old age. In the marshy districts of certain countries,-for example, Egypt, Georgia, and Virginia,-the extreme term of life is stated to be forty in t

all African explorers and travellers have been much amazed at the diversity of color and stature among the tribes they m

nic tracts are to be found the Libyan race, with a tawny complexion, features quite Caucasian, and long black hair. On the sandstones are to be found an intermediate type, darke

ountains and the sea, from Senegal to Benguela, and the low lands of the eastern side in the same manner. He is found

thing, has been crowded, the nomadic portion of the population has poured itself over the

do not believe the Negr

development, and the deep black skin of the typical N

the miasmatic districts may be observed to lose his stature, his complexion, his hair, and his intellectual vigor: he finally becomes the Negro. Pathologically considered, he i

classes of African society. They may be compared to those which in England fill our jails, our workhouses, and our hospitals. So far from

a; and I must paint the deformed anatomy of hi

ere property is common, and where, consequently, there is no property at all; where one may recogniz

offspring. He swallows up his youth in premature vice; he lingers through a manhood of disease, and his tardy death is hastened by those who no longer care to find him food.... If you wish to know what they have been, and to what we may restore them, look at the portraits which have been preserved of the ancient Egyptians: and in those delicate and

ous columns of stronger tribes; hundreds of thousands have perished from fever, small-pox, and cutaneous diseases; hundreds of thousands have been sold into slavery; hundreds of thousands have perished in the "middle-passage;" hundreds of thousands have been landed in this New World

gs, the Negro on the west coast of Africa, in Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as in the southern part of the United States, shows that centuries of savagehood and slavery have not drained him o

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