Archive image from page 568 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 1353 Fig. 831. Senegal Cliief. (From a portrait taken In/ an officer in the expedition of Capt. Laplace.} opposite sides of Africa, are the high plains of Enarea and Kaffa, where the inhabitants are said to be fairer than the natives of Southern Europe. So, again, whenever we hear of a Negro state, whose members have attained any considerable degree of improvement in their social condition, we constantly find that their physical char
Archive image from page 568 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 1353 Fig. 831. Senegal Cliief. (From a portrait taken In/ an officer in the expedition of Capt. Laplace.} opposite sides of Africa, are the high plains of Enarea and Kaffa, where the inhabitants are said to be fairer than the natives of Southern Europe. So, again, whenever we hear of a Negro state, whose members have attained any considerable degree of improvement in their social condition, we constantly find that their physical characters deviate considerably from the strongly-marked or exaggerated type of the Negro ; such are the Ashanti, the Sulima, and the Dahomans of Western Africa, of which last nation the king is de- scribed by a recent visitor (Lieut. Forbes) as many shades removed from black in his com- plexion, as having quite an intellectual expression of countenance, and as possess- ing a remarkable symmetry of figure. It is obvious, too, from the account given by the same observer, that a very complex social system has developed itself among this people, and that they have made considerable progress in the arts of life, although this has hitherto been only turned to account in furthering the traffic in slaves, of which Dahomey is now the centre, so far as the Slave Coast is concerned. The highest civilization, and the greatest im- provement in physical characters, are to be found in those nations which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. This was intro- duced, three or four centuries since, into the eastern portion of Central Africa; and it appears that the same people who were then existing in the savage condition still exhibited Dahomey and the Dahomans, 1851. by the pagan nations further south, have now adopted many of the arts and institutions of civilised society, subjecting themselves to governments, practising agriculture, and dwelling in towns of considerable extent, some containi
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