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Show G46 'l'lTJ~ MONOGENISTS AND Rhwo-marts of Timbo too, Monrzook, and other onA s; whence th y h como distribntc(1, hy Touarik and Arab gellr'tbs, throughout Marocchin , Algerian, TuniHinn and 1'ripolitan, torritori s. Now, tho vttt'ious ncrrro population~> of th above-named rivers arc by no moans tho mostanstral nations ropr s nt din these cities' local l:wo-markots; because such diE>tin ·t stati ns arc, in their turn, ro-·fill d by caravans from the interior; who~:~o "exploitation" ofnigritian prisoners stretches hackwards to Ashantcc, Bonin, Dahomey, Adamoua, &c.: whither again converge end! ss radiations of still more inland slaves, whoso lnmto<l-grouncls ron ·h southwards to nn unknown o,'tont, but cort! tinly as far a OJWO. Tho consoqn nco is, that in Alrroria, as at Cairo, numberless varictic of n grocs, from many countries, arc repr scntcd, in human slave-basaars. Among th so, a pecnliat· type is frequently soon oven now, but was far more abundant prior to tho abolition of thnt pimtical D yship, by tho 11'r nch in 1830. Of this race I clearly l'Cmcmbor two hngc and ]or·ocious sp cimons worl<i ng aboLlt Mohammed Ali's ar~:~onal at A I xanch·ia for· a long ti rno, between 1827 and 1835; when I think they must have sue nm heel to tho o-roat plague of tho latter year. They lracl be n land d l'r·om tho crows of an Algorin f1·igat and a. corvct.to that, sout as quota to tho Pasha's squadron nrrainst the Greeks, r tt d their hulks ont in our western harbor, after tho fall of thei1 (luondam owner at Algiers. Witness for year~:~, and once a istan:, retributor, of tho hrnlalit.y of those two Alg rinc negroes, their physiognomies arc inol~itc ahlo from my memory; b ing bcHidos totaliJ distinct from any negro race bronght down tho Nile to Cairo. It was, therefor , with satisfaction that I lately recognized tlto foa. turcs of my old acqnaintanc s, in two plates, wholly distinct in origin, reprcscntinO' tl1 same type abiding in :B'ronch AIO'oria: with the ouly difl:'crcncc that the men I knew were almost blacl<: in color. Tho profile of one is fac-Rimilc-cd in No. 26 of our Tableau undot· th name of" Saharran-ncgro ;" partly b cause this individual, or· his vnronts, must have b on brought across tho great desert, and pnrtly llotw~cn myM?lf nnol otilors,-from Dec. 1850, o.t Philndolphia, down to Juno 185<l, at PariHrc. lJLttv.o to tlns g,·nutl oxp.ol.'imou.t of nnlumlizing t.ho Arabian onmol, amid~t its homogono()u~ olimntJo nnd otho1· con<htlons, 111 tho soutb-wostorn States aud 1'orritorios of tho Unitod Sto.tos on this continent. 1 hope soon to hrLvo a little tnoro loiHuro thnn just nt this moment; when it will afford mo gt·on.t plo~suro, tho public much onlertniumont, aud tho HONORAOJ.EJ MR. MARSH poculiur gratlllo.tth.on,,, to show how onHy it wns to "see through n.millaton , n.fter somebody had mouo 1\ holcm1t, as concerns tho succoHsful importation of tboso Camels-no loss tluw this ~ontlcmnn'a ~st?unding mesmorio clttirvoynnce in guessing o.t every fRet tll\d ideo. eontr1ined Hl t.hat fno-aJmJ\e copy of my "Remarks" aforesaid, during the period thut it lay locked up m n p~tent StLlamnmlot· an.fe. Philndolphin, lOth .l!'ebruary, 1857. _G. R. G., "(formel'ly) Umted Stulos Consul at Cairo." TIIE POLYGF.NJSTS. 54 7 because numerous historical analogies load me to infer, that it is toward!:! en gal that his typi al family should be sought for. Its origina,l colored arawing, much larger in size, being one of about forty beautifully-executed portraits takou on tho spot by tho Oormnission scientifique d'Algb·ie, is now suspended in the Galerie Antlwopologique of tho Parisian M us6um. J ublishcd by tho Chief ofthat expedition, tho late Bory do Saiut-Vinccnt,411 my copy has been traced upon stone directly from Dory do St. Vincent's plato, in my pos~:~cssion. lie thus briefly describes this head's history:- "No. m., finally, is tho ETHIOPIAN type. This head was that of a bandit native of tho Soodc'tn [n gro-land], kill d in tho Sahel [AtlmJtic slopes towards tho Sahara], whc1·o ouo of tho sabre-cut~:~ with which ho was smitten shows, over tho left par·ietal, how much more considerable tho thickness of tho bones of tho cranium is in negroes than in other men. * * * "In disposing," proceeds our author, "tho bony cases [skulls] that I present to the Acad my, upon tho same plane one after auotlr r, we arc first stl'Uc]- by tho manner in which, on starting from tho A Llantic typo [or Ber·ber, sec a scmplar gradation in om 'l.'ableau, No. 22], wh r in tho facial anglo is almost a right one, the gradual prominence of tho upper jaw becomes considerable. This elongation if:! such in tho Ethiopian, that the resemblance of his skeleton to that of tho la1·go monkeys becomes striking [ubi supra]: at tho base of a snflicicntly-high, but laterally compressed fro1ttal region, tho supraorbital ridges project almost as considurably as those of a middleaged Omng. OLhor bony prominences, not less mar·kcd, crown tho tcmpora.lrcgion at tho attachments of tho temporal muscles; a very pronounced depression exists at tho root of the nose, of which the bones proper arc also tho shortest, and so disposed forwards tha.t their situation becomes nearly horizontal. Certain airs of animality re ult from this osteological ensemble; and, tho facial traits not being less strange, the breadth of tho nose with its widely-open wings, and tlto prodigious thickness of the lips, whoso lower one seems to bo quasi-pendent, impress upon tl1is Ethiopjau's profile the aspect of a sort of muzzle." Following this famed anthropologist's snggostion, I now suhmil, to thor adce's inspection, follr wood-cuts (A, B, C, D, on next page). Few remarks snifice to establish authenticity. TJ1o palpable ana- <II Sur t'Antltropologie de I' Afrique J!'ran9aise (rend Bt tho Acad6mio des Science~, :.!0 Juno, 1846)-extr!lct f1·om tho .Afagasi11 de Zoologie, d'A11alomie com.part~ el de PaUonlologie; Paris, Oct. 1815; pp. 18-4; n.nd Plate Mllmmifcrcs, Pl. <ll, figs. "No. Ill. 'l'ype E!ldopim." DonY JHJ ST. VrNo•:Nt is tho well-known polygonist; nuthor of JJIIomme (llomo). Exsai zoologiquc sur le Oe11rc Uumai11; of which I um ouly noquniutod wilh the 2d edition; Plll'ia, 2 vols. l 8mo., 1827. |