[7] This was probably the case with the Callaici.
[8] The famous Knighthood of Malta—without fear, but (though, perhaps, the best of its class) not without reproach, has no place here. Its ethnology belongs to the different countries which it dignified by its valour, or dishonoured by its profligacy.
[9] This I believe to have been the case with the ancient Greeks also; though the proof would require an elaborate monograph.
[10] The two together have led to a doctrine which has been best developed by Fallmerayer. It is this—that the modern Greeks are Sclavonians. The Russian school are the chief believers of this. In the few countries where ethnology is scientific rather than political, the more moderate opinion of the modern Greeks being a mixed stock prevails.
[11] Or beck.
CHAPTER II.
DEPENDENCIES IN AFRICA.
THE GAMBIA SETTLEMENTS.—SIERRA LEONE.—THE GOLD COAST.—THE CAPE.—THE MAURITIUS.—THE NEGROES OF AMERICA.