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, illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S. Patterson / by J. C. Nott, and Geo. R. Gliddon.
- Josiah C. Nott
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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, illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S. Patterson / by J. C. Nott, and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![modern to be important out of towns on the seaboard, the combined influences of European captives, at Salee, Tangiers, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Bengazi, and other privateering principalities; which circum- stances, in the maritime cities, have blended every type of man that could be kidnapped around the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and East- ern Atlantic, by Barbary pirates. [As an illustration — Mr. Gliddon tells us, that, in 1830, just after the French conquest of Algiers, the hold of a Syrian brig, in which he sailed from Alexandria to Sidon, was occupied by one wealthy Algerine family, fleeing from Gallic heresies to Arabian Islam, an}7where. Exclusive of servants and slaves, there were at least fifty adults and minors, under the control of a patriarchal grand or great-grandfather. Of course, our infor- mant saw none of the grown-up females unveiled; but, while the patriarch and some of the sons were of the purest white complexion, their various children presented every hue, and every physical diver- sity, from the highest Circassian to a Guinea-Negro. In this case, no Arabic interpreter being needed, it was found that each individual of the worthy corsair's family, unprejudiced in all things, save hatred towards Christendom in general and Frenchmen in particular, had merely chosen females irrespectively of color, race, or creed.—J. C. N.] Hodgson states — The Tuarycks are a white people, of the Berber race. . . . The Mozabicks are a remark- ably white people, and are mixed with Bedouin Arabs. . . . The Wadreagans and Wurgelans are of a dark bronze, with woolly hair . . . are certainly not pure Caucasian, like the Berber race in general. . . . There is every probability that the Kushites, Amalekites, and Kah- tanites, or Beni-Yoktan Arabs, had, in obscure ages, sent forward tribes into Africa. But the first historic proof of emigration of the Aramean or Shemitic race into this region is that of the Canaanites of Tyre and of Palestine. This great commercial people settled Carthage, and pushed their traders to the Pillars of Hercules.248 Upon these various branches of a supposed common stock, there have been engrafted some shoots of foreign origin; for, amidst a uni- formity of language, there exist extraordinary differences of color and of physical traits — at the same time, are we sure of this alleged uniformity of speech itself? Now, we repeat, history affords no well- attested example of a language outliving a clearly-defined physical type ; and, in a preceding chapter, we fully instanced how the Jews, scattered for 2000 years over all climates of the earth, have adopted the language of every nation among whom they sojourn — thus affording one undeniable proof of our assertion, not to mention many others one might draw from less historical races. Mr. Hodgson is a strenuous advocate of an extreme antiquity for the Berbers, or Libyans : — Their histoi'y is yet to be investigated and written. I yet maintain the opinion ad- vanced some years ago, that these people were the terra genili — the aboriginal inhabitants](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21510404_0250.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
