"3.  The  complexion  of  the  Arabs  displays  great
diversities  in  the  different  countries  inhabited  by
them.  Volney  says  that  some  of  the  Bedouins  are
black.  Niebuhr  and  De  Pag6s  assure  us  that  the
color  of  the  lower  orders  is  naturally  a  dusky  or
yellow  brown.  According  to  Burkhardt,  the  Arabs
in  the  low  countries  of  the  Nile  bordering  on  Nubia,
are  black.  This  traveller  carefully  distinguishes
the  Arabs  from  Negroes  and  Nubians.  Higher  up
the  Nile  than  Dongola  are  the  Shegya  Arabs  of
whom  we  have  an  excellent  description  from  an  in-
teligeat  English  traveller,     '  The  general  complex-


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ion  of  the  Shegya  Arabs,'  says  Mr.  Waddington,
*is  a  jet  black.  The  Shegya'  he  adds,  *asl  have
already  mentioned,  are  black, — a  clear,  glossy,  jet
black,  which  appeared  to  my  then  unprejudiced
eyes  to  be  the  finest  color  that  could  be  selected  for
a  human  being.  They  are  distinguished  in  every
respect  from  the  Negroes  by  the  brightness  of  their
color;  by  their  hair  and  the  regularity  of  their
features ;  by  the  mild  and  dewy  lustre  of  their  eyes ;
and  by  the  softness  of  their  touch,  in  which  last
respect  they  yield  not  to  Europeans. '149.
"  4.  Of  the  skulls  found  in  mummies.  The
Egyptian  skulls  were,  as  we  have  before  observed,
generally  of  that  form  which  belong  to  all  the  most
anciently  civilized  races,  namely,  the  oval;  but
there  were  great  varieties  among  the  people  in  this
respect.  Most  of  them  resembled  the  European
skull  in  many  particulars ;  but,  in  some  a  certain
approximation  to  the  African  has  been  observed  or
fancied.  The  figure  in  the  margin  is  a  sketch  of
a  skull  in  the  Museum  of  the  College  of  Surgeons.
