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Show 630 'l'I£E MONOGENlSTS AND tho greatest perspicacity, tho same relative topogmphical posiLionB in wl1ich the indigenous Atlantic Bcrl>crR, the exotic Arabs, and the negro races, stand towards ca h other at this day. Perfectly lear also wore this learned Arab'B ethnic views about the distinctness of negro nations from either B rbcrs or Arab . HiH "History of the kings of tho negro peoples [Soodan, i. c. tho Blaclcs]" begins thus: "']'his portion of tl1o humau species that is composed of nogr·o populations has, for dwclliJJg-placo, the conn tries of the second climate and of the first [His g gmpl1y l>cing that of EDREESEE, who, like t.hc Greeks, imagined that the African coutinent prolonO' <l its lf towards the cast; iu onl r to form tho south r·n limit of the Indian and China cas]. * * * Thy occupy th territori s in all their width, from the occident to the ori nt. * * * The negro spoci s snbdivic1es itself into several races, tribes, and ramifiuations; ofwhich th best known, in tho last, arc tho ZendJ (natives of Zanzibar and Mozambique), the Habasha (A byssinians), and the Nouba (Nubi.ans).'' lie describes some nineteen peoples of tho black race; and rohttes two curious facts showing tho danger of arming negroes as soldiers :-1 t, b win lic<ljm 252 =.A. D. 866, the Zend;' "slaves" revolted at Basra (Bassora, on tho Euphrates) :-2nd, how in Ilcdjr·a 468, tho corp of Turhsh M mlooks, in tho service of ET..-MOSTAN. Jm, had many sanguinary ongagom nts, at Cairo, with tho negro "slave" troops belonging to tho same Rhalif. Tho Ketamians (i. c. Berber, or MoO'hrabeo, mercenaries) ranged themselves on the side of tho Memlooks; and, in one of thcie con£iicts, 40,000 of their bla k adversaries were slaught r·cd. Tho same troubles rocureed during my own time in Egypt, wbcn Mohammed Ali imagined that he could form a regular {temy of negro soldiers, imported as slav B from tho Beh\d-os-Soodan along tho Upper Nile. Out of some 12,000 who tured him, and in time sent him to T3russa, and afterwards, where he resides now, to DamascuM) than any Plenipote11ti11ry ever perpetrated before I Without the Arabic toxt it ca.nnot be made very clo11r, but here it is from PASOAT. DuPllA'r (Op. cit., pp. 201-2). 'l'hc words run:-"el Ameer Aun-ro,-QAOBU yi(lref kulcm Sooltc~lllll Franta fi Aj,·ilceeya"-supposcd by tho French prolocol-makcr to m()ll.n, "lo Prince Abd-ol-Karl6r reconnu1t lc gouverncmcnt du Ltoi des Frn1t9n.is en Afrique." Nothing of the kind I The astute Shemito overreached tho Dragomon (interpreter) in the two main points,-] Rt, by gctti11g himself' recognized as rm Amcer, pt·inec, when he was previously but a mere Ttadjee, pilgrim lo Meccrt; and 2nd, hy rocognizi11g French sovereignty, not in Algct'ill at all, but away to the eastward (where neither par·ty h11d any rights) in 'l'unis, 'l'ripoli, &c. 1 ~'his is tho litem! sense-" the prince Abd-cl-QMcr knows the government of 11 king of ]!'ranee in Ajrikeeya I" Russia for a century, France for twenty-five years, England for some twenty-five months, u.nd tho United States F.xocutivo not even yetr-have comprchende(l thot diplomatists ought to be at least 11cquainteu with tho vorno.cuh1r of those countries to which, at enormous cost, a.nd frequent inutility, they lire commissioned. TlTF. POLYGBNIS'l'S. GSl wore drill d in Upper· Egypt, J823-G, all tho~:~c wl10 did not die of consumption before tho cxpcdiLions 380 sail d to tho Morea (1824-5), 1186 "Ilo.ud obliviscondum" hy his first-born is all that need bore 11ccompany rcl'oronco to my Fathot·,-who unostonttttiously manumitted, at Alex11ndria, every ono of out· slu.ves, between the years 1821 aud 1827. This is a fact I desire lo spot1k upon. JortN Or.toooN-bol'll at U:xctcr, Dovonsuirc, 28th J~ebr·utlry, 1781-lcft Bnglar1d in 1811, was a known Mediterranean merchttut at Malta for seven year·s; and t!Jenco Rcttling in Egypt with his family (August, 1818), became not nnknown for influential poHition 11nd generous docds during the apogee of Mohummed Ali's ctlrcor; cHpecildly whilst hohling, from 1882 to 18'.14, tho !iOJIOrci1'!J incumbency of t!Jo lJ. S. Cou~ulship, first at Aloxmtdria and subsequently at Cairo. Ho died at Malta-lufnneena-3d July, 1814. [[say "honorr.ry" U. S. Consul, for tho especial purposo of contradicting, once and forever, one of many other fttl~ hoods printed last summer, viz: "Our first Consul-General In Egypt was a Yorkshiroman, who owocl the station to missionru·y patronage. llo received 82000 a year, and was fr c to cont:nuo hi~ own voofltion as a met·chant." Tho anonymous, though by my~clf unmistal cable, signttture of n. "'l'mvelor" more notorious for ubiquily than for veraciousness or uisct·ction,- tnkon in conjunction with the coincidence that his ties found uttcmnce in a "d11ily" who~o ltct1d mnnngor 11nd editorial principles 1\l'C too vile for dumblc advcrtisemont from my own pcn-rondet· it mcr·cly necessary horc to record thr1t, in the North Anw·ica11 (Philo.delplti•t, F'ebmat·y 10, 1847), mny bo found a "Letter" of mine, setling forth, then nil now, all relations of GJ.tVOON:zn·enomi11a with the various adrninistr11tions of the lJniterl States during my lifetime, so frtt·. Spcotking merely liS an ethnologist, I myRelf have only ren.d or hoord of, nnd never cn.t·cd about, what executive may ho.vc happoncd to strut, quadt·onnially, ovor the Washingtonian plr1tforms. F.ach of us felt proud to serve the United Stales; none of us being ever minions of n. fttclion. The pending Congressional committee of invostigt1tion into "Lobby" membership (amply commented on in the New York !Jerald, Doc. 1850-fo'ob. 1857), absolves me from rtdding my experiences of political probity in "Uncle Sam's" clom11in. I will, thcroforo, mcr·oly ohu.llenge contr11diction, at the United States' Stnto Department, of those facts, viz: that my Father for 12, myself for 8, my brother William for 2, my brothor-in-h1W A lcxrtndor ~l.'od for 0, and 111! of us d.uring 17 years that wo upheld gratuitously tho honor of tho n11g in Egypt, over received compensation, personally, in a single Uniterl Stalo~' "rod cent." Wo have scvemlly been the mere cht~nnols of payment (less than $500 11 yonr at Alexandria, d•tring perhapsl7,-n.nd far less than another $500 por annum at Cairo dm·ing 3 years), to nt1tive employes whom tl1o State Department's "printed regulations" compelled us t.o maintain 1\nrl stipend for the United tr.1te~' service i11 that Pashu.lic. On the contrary, thoro httng on file, at tho Slate Dopn.rtmcnt (as mentioned in the North American aforesaid), documcntH to prove that, wcl'C equity in CongresR not notoriously moaHm·od by tho mtio of discounts t.o intermedia, "Uncle Sam" really owes, 1\nd ought to pu.y, my Fr1thct·'s cstn.te something over $2000 at this moment, interests for 20 years cxclusivo,- which clu.im, now ns formcl'ly, I hereby llbtmdon to the f(tto of "Amy Du.rden's horse.."] Wo ln.ndod in Bgypt bofore tho "Emanoipn.lion Act," whiclt lms ntinctl t.he JkitiHh West Indios, wns p1.18sod; wboroforo my Father th n considered it no sin to purchnso, for domosticu. tion, such slaves as suite<! our fttmily requil'omcnts. 'l'ho first wns, 181 fl, /l'll/ima-nurso to my l11mentcd brolhot· Chal'lcs (diod Stlddenly of cholcm at Dacca, Bengal, 27th Nov. 1840)-a rcddish-blu.ck Ga11a-girl, l'iv11lling tho Ve11us de Jl{cdicis in form n.nd strikingly in faco,- but with long, soft, w11vy hair, sm111l mouth; in sh01·t, no nogrcss. She wn.s freed u.nd married out in 1821, dying shortly aft 1' of the plngnc. The next wore, 1822, .Fil.tima 11nd Seyda, Dar-foor nogrcsses, and a fino negro boy ll!ltnod Jlfurgirh1 (i. e . . ~fargrrrilttt, com!). The former two wore emancipated, dowt·i •rl and marri d out i11 182!!, owing to tho departure of my mother to plttco three of us at school in l~np:lnnd. 'l'hc latt01·, aft~t· boing taught roading and writing, baptized and vaccinated, undcrwout, at the age of puberty, |