. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . stern coast of Africa, and that seems to be thecradle of all these wandering septs, living in grottoes, and designated in consequence underthe name of Troglodytes. They derive their origin from the Blemmyes, a nomad people ofthe environs of Axum, which the love of pillage drew towards Egypt [that is, in Romantimes; when Coptic annals recount the ravages as low as Esneh of the Bal-n-Moui, Eye-of-L
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . stern coast of Africa, and that seems to be thecradle of all these wandering septs, living in grottoes, and designated in consequence underthe name of Troglodytes. They derive their origin from the Blemmyes, a nomad people ofthe environs of Axum, which the love of pillage drew towards Egypt [that is, in Romantimes; when Coptic annals recount the ravages as low as Esneh of the Bal-n-Moui, Eye-of-Lion, or Blemmyes. 243] The manners of the Bishari differ little from those of the Ababdeh, with whom, nevertheless, they are ever at war Their language has drawn nothing from the Arabic, and seems to approach the Abyssinian and the Berber [i. e. Ber-berree.] This people, truly indigenous to Africa, is cruel, avaricious, and vindictive; thesedispositions are restrained by no law, human or We copy (Fig. 120) one of Prisses engravings. It exhibits theperfect Bishari, but differs too slightly from the Ababdeh characteris-tics not to exemplify both tribes equally well. AFRICAN TYPES. 203. Among Dr. Mortons FlQ- 120< papers we find the copyof a letter, addressed fromthe Isle of PJiilse, Sept. 15,1844, by Chev. Lepsius, toour erudite countryman,the late John Pickering,of Boston. Being inedited,and mentioned only by onewriter215 that we know of,we translate such passagesas bear upon Nubian sub-jects, not merely for theirintrinsic value, but in tri-bute to the memory of theprofoundest native philo-logist that our country hashitherto produced. I have no need, certainly, to insist, as regards yourself, upon the high importance?which linguistic researches always possess in ethnographical studies. I have not neglected,either, to study, to the extent that time permitted, the different tongues of the Soudan,?whenever I could find individuals who were in a state to communicate an
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