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Show G32 THE MONOGENISTS AND none came back (1 28), except a few miserable sulclrat Mles (invalid a vetomns) who, for a few y 'ltr, lirJO'ered as houAohold guards about tho harcem-uoor· of Tbrahccm Pasha at Kasr-cd-Doobar·a, until the plague of 1835 (" qnrcquo ipse misorima vidi ") swept them oft~ togcth r with ahnost all the nerrro slaves and Nubians (Barabe?·a), then in Lower E<~ypt. 387 Dnring :five months that (1828-9) I sojoumod at Navarino and Modon, sk letona of some of these unfortunates, rocou·nizablc by tatters of their uniforms, frequently fell (in continual rides and shootinrr excursions) in my way, while graves of the remainder lay alongside the Modon road for miles. If tho opinions of those alone qualified to decide be taken, all the farnilics of Atalantic, or Grotulian, stool' arc terrre-geniti.388 "The Berbers," says De laue, "autochthonous people of northern Africa, arc the same race that is now designated by the name of KabUes. This word, which signifies 'clan' [in Arabic, plur·al 1hu,L ooustitutionul chango from intelligence aud gentlono~s to stupid ferocity which, in J~gypt, prevents everybody, but Turkish officials who possess soldiery, from keeping adult Jtogt·o mnlo slaves in honscholds. A!urgian abjured Christ and tumcd Muslim, bocnme too restive for mild control,-nnd finally (1824 ), becoming infatuated with n Niztlm-;'~ze~d regiment of negroes about to ombnrk for tho wnr in tho More11, my father gnvo him his liberty. IIo sn.iled and, like his commdcs, novor oamo bnck. Four more negro girls wore purchased on my mother"s return to Alexttndrin (1 8213) ; but, being absent iu Englund myself nt thnt time, I do not recollect the nnmos of 8, nnll they were ah-cndy froo nod married off on my return in June, 1827,- ns wns tho fourth, BarMra, in July of tho snmo yonr. Jlcr plnco wns re-filled by n Christian white Rlnvo, bought out of compn~sion ft·om the '£urkish soldiery, in tho bnsnnr, when JtUndreds of Greek cnpLivos wore ravished from the Moron, to bocomo, in pot·tion, rescued, through Count tlo St. LogOl' nod C11plnin Coddl'ington, 1828; as, iudocd, two oLltors wore by myself nt Cr1iro iu 1882, nnd sent homo. Our lady's mnid, J>a 8quala, ft·oe from tho hour she touched my fr~thor's throshhold, mn.t·ried out in 1828; n.nd titus in that year ondod our fl\lnily connection with sin very; although n. Rilly tourist (Dn. 110M' YA't'~Js), hospitably onLortninod by my father nt Alexn.ndrin in 1828-0, bns fttbt·ioatcd for ltis book nu nJfocting tnle nbout Lbo iuUueucc of nu "Abyssinian slnvo girl" over one of my ~is tors 1 In justice to my parents' memory I ought to stnto thnt, in common with others nt that omaneipntion-pcriod, they then renounced tho further possession of slaves "for conscience' snke ;"-soutimonts in wltioh I nov or hr~vo pnrticipn.ted; because I consider it u far more philantht·opic net (wltfltover "ExcLer-bnll" mny think of it), to rescue by purchase any lttuOI\n being- especially scmi-wiltlnogrocs, when thoir humanization is the nnturul conse(), uouco- from tl1o b1·utal olutchos of tho gcllab (slr~vo-fatohor), thnn either to abandon him or her nmid tho horrors of an Oriontnl slavo-mnrt, or to loL him or ltor run tho risk of not obtaining n bettor mnstor. "So tho~," as S•r. PAuL (Jilp. to the Romans, XIV, 12,-SrrARPII's N. 1'., p. 803) bus clon.t·ly expressed tt, "eoch of us shall give account of ltimsolf to God;" nor is tho Fother occountublo, in this cnso, for a differonco of ethical opinions in bis son. 887 1'hore is 1\ note of mine on this ~ubjoct in my friend Dn. 'BAlvroN's Report of tltc SallitanJ Commission of Nm Orlea11s, 1851. See also Norr's Chnp. IV, p. 808, nnte. • 8~ For all formor nuthorities, soo Otmno11, Otia lEgypliaca, 11:!49, "Exom'SUS on tho ot·tgtn of somo of tho lJerbe:r tt·ibes of Nnhin and J,ibya," pp. 116-46: _and 'f'IJp•s of /lfa11kind, 18134, pp. 180-1, 204-10, 610 "Ludlm," to &26. THE POLYGF.NISTS. 538 Kabthl], has not b en employed to d signata the B ·rbcrs earlier than about tht·cc centuries. The introduction of this distortct1 meaning must probably be attributed to the 'l'urks,"389-who entered Algiers under Bat·barossa at tho beginning of tlrc 16th c ntury. Inasmuch as gt·eat confusion prevails y t in the minds of otherwise well-informed othnoo-raplwrs upon Berber subjects, and my object being now to separate these races of the llamitic type of mankind, entirely from any affinity with more austral negro nations, unknown to tho Berbers before tho introduction of camcls 300-a few extracts from the li'rench ''Exploration scicntitiquc do l'.Algcric" :JVt arc hero introduced. The uplands and the aborigines of Berberia (true name for Barbary) are likened by Caretta, in their geological phenomena and their human vicissitudes, to an Arcllipclago subject to rising an(l fallinrr tides:-"thc scarped islands arc tho mountainous masses; the :li~t islands arc the Oases; 392 the secular tides arc the invasions. All those islands represent different groups of tho same nation ; whereas the wave that bathos them is by tums Pltconician, Roman, Vandal, Greek, Arn.b, Turkish," -and, at this moment, Frenclr. All those have carried away some B01·bcr, and loft some foreign words. N ovcrthcless, the old lingua Atlantica is still recoverable; at tho same time (as I have elsewhere indicated) all its words of moral aud intellectual civilizaLiou, altogether wanting in Berber, have boon absorbed from the Arabia,-frorn which the Berber vocabulary and grannncttical construction, by monogcni~t~ supposed to bo "Syro-Arabian," is now proved to bo absolutely dtstmct. U ndor the head of "Distinctive characteristics of the Berber· tongue," our Author points out that the strongest di{fcreucc between the Arabs and the ][ab?iil of Mt. Atlas lies in their la11guagcs" c'cst Ja surtout qui on fait deux nations distinctc ." Arabic wordfl, when adopt0d by Bcrbct·s, undergo great changes, and those people und01·stand as little of an Arabic discourse as a French one; at tho samo time that it is easier for an Arab to acquire French than BB9 Op. cit., profMo, p. 1. . 8110 Amply confirmed, from tho lntost sources, by V!V11lll DB Sr. MAwrrN, "L'Explorat10n sciontifiquo de !'Afrique contrnlo," Revue Oontomporaine, Pnris, 15th Sept. 1855, PP· 4.313-0. 891 "Pond1111t los An noes 1840, 1811, 1842, publico pnr ordro du Oonvcrn~mont, o~ nv~o Je concours d'un Commission Acnd6miquc," 41o, mnny vols., 1848-GB, Plwts, lmpt·tmurte nntionl\le (now imp6rinlo). My selections nro mt\do chiefly from CAJt~1'1'B, Etudu 1ur lrt Kabilieproprement dtte (T, pp. 13, 20-33)-Prlcis historique (pp. 447- 62)-and Re~her.chr3 811r t' Origine tt lei migratio11s des Principalts Tribus de t' Afrique Septentrionalt, et parttcult~rtmmt de t'Aigcrie (Til, pp. 18-213, 27-5G, 301-0, 441, 470) . 892 Lucitlly expln.inod from the accounts of ItrouARDSON, DAttTn, OvF.IIWF.O, nnd YooJ:t,, as regards tho 'l'ripolitan route over tho Saharn, by S'l·. MARTIN, op. cit., PP· 480-6, 440-G. ~:u~.,~,' 1 1'1 1'1 1 |