[112]. Notwithstanding this mixture of nations, Mr. Hoskins observes, that the higher classes of modern Ethiopians (Nubians,) pay great respect to the distinctions of race; that they esteem nothing more than a light complexion, which the petty kings or chiefs make a prerequisite to the selection of wives; and that, with this class, “all mixture with the Negro blood is carefully shunned.”—Travels in Ethiopia, p. 357.
[113]. Rosellini, Appendix, No. 13.—Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, Vol. III.
[114]. Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia. Procession, Part First.
[115]. Topography of Thebes, p. 136.
[116]. Champollion, Monumens de l’Egypte, Plate CX.
[117]. Vide Champollion, Monumens de l’Egypte, Tom. I., Plate LXXI., LXXII.; and Rosellini, Monumenti, M. R., Tav. LXXV. A glance at these illustrations will convince any one that the slave-hunts or ghrazzies, as now practised by the Arabs, Tuaricks and Turks, and which are so feelingly described by Cailliaud, and by Denham and Clapperton, were in active operation, with all their atrocities, in the most flourishing periods of Pharaonic Egypt.
[118]. Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1794, p. 193.
[119]. Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians, Vol. III. p. 108.
[120]. See Mrs. Hamilton Gray’s History of Etruria, Vol. I., p. 29.
[121]. In my Crania Americana, Note p. 29, I have employed this passage to show, that those Colchians whom Herodotus mentions as forming “part of the troops of Sesostris,” might have been Negroes acting as mercenary or auxiliary soldiers. I am now satisfied that such explanation is at least unnecessary, and I, therefore, take this occasion to withdraw it.