The Human Race

hat of the Negro and that of the White. The natives constituting this branch have never attained to any appreciable degree of civilization, and there is a complete void of positive notions as to thei

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ABYSS

though darker invariably than that of the European, is fairer than that of the negro. Their hair, which is generally frizzled, their lips usually thick, and their nose less flat than that of the Negro, are so many charac

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the Abyssinians, the Barabras, the Tibbous, and the Gallas, about any

many times overrun, and perhaps civilized, by the nations of Western Asia; but the colour of their skin, which is very much darker than that o

ng the people of this country, the more widely spread approaching to

long, thin, finely cut nose, a well proportioned mouth with lips of moderate thickness, lively eyes, regular teeth, slightly crisp or smooth hair, and a middle stature. Most of the people dw

animation in them; and very curly and almost woolly hair, which is so close, that it stands straight out from the head. A porti

Negro; the cheeks form a more regular triangle with the angle of the mouth and the corner of the jaw; the lips are thick without being turned out like a Negro's; the teeth are handsome, well set and less projecting; and the alveolar ridges are not so prominent. The complexion of the Abys

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has given considerable information as to this part of Africa and its inhabitants, and the victorious enterprise unde

let go their bridles, fight with both hands, and guiding and urging their horses with leg and knee only, make them perform the most prodigious feats. Each man has a sword and two lances; the latter always hit the mark, and their wound is deadly. They are used like javelins, and are about two yards long. Every horseman is followed b

neers, of cool, resolute courage,

cessantly moving from one end of his dominions to the other. He maintained strict discipline in h

where servitude is more widely spread. A person possessed of an income equal to ￡160 a year, keeps at least eight dependants. M.

tyled the "Abouna," and his theocratic powers are almost boundless. King and pontiff entertain a mutual hatred of one another, each drea

sts are common

stances, the meat used in the country is full of cysts, which, getting into the stomach along with the food, generate in the intestin

cupy that part of the valley comprised between the south

on the banks of the Nile, and, wherever the soil is found favourable, plant dat

ack skin, but of a much darker tint. The characteristic features of the pure Barabras are oval and somewhat long faces, with aquiline noses, very well formed and slightly rounded towards the point, lips thic

a dialect of its own, namely, the Noubas or Nubians, the Ken

h and flexible, while the palm of a genuine Negro's hand is rough and as hard as wood. Their noses, too, are less flat, their lips less th

pte," by MM. Henri Cammas and André Lefèvre, by whom the country was

ss a warlike gait; the dagger hanging by a strap to their arm, their ironwood bow and their buckler of crocodi

husbandmen dispute with it for the fertilizi

for them when they have sown pinches of corn

d twist their hair into numberless tiny plaits, which are not re-made every day. Egyptian females would look on them as indecent, for allowing the lower part of the face to be seen; and more than that even, the girls, up to the time of their marriage, wear no covering beyond

s and every ancient divinit

o traverse the country included between the Nile and the Red Se

rs, and the Hadharebs are still more to the south, reaching to So

es, light, elegant frames, and a dark chocolate-coloured complexion. Their method of wearing the hair is very curious. Those who possess it in sufficient length to reach below the ear, allow it to hang in straight, tangled locks, each of which terminates in a curl. This headgear is impregnated with grease,

traordinary, and the scratching pin is also

ps are slightly thick, their noses rather long, and in complexion they ar

ily, but their complexion is darker and they do not speak the Arab tongue. Their noses are aquiline, their lips but slightly thic

into a great many independent tribes, being kept united, however, by origin and language. They are warlike, cruel, and given to plunder. Their colour is very handsome and their hair u

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Their skin is extremely dark, inclining sometimes to a reddish, and sometimes to a copper colour, but being never really black; they have rather long hair, smooth and silky;

dwelling in the western part of Africa, such

or Segou, is a tolerably lar

d side by side with the Fellans and a comparison should also be

untry belonging to the latter branch, with which some authors erroneously confound t