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statements of Dr. Livingstone and Sir Samuel Baker, assured
me that the lowest of the Africans were found along the
sea-coasts ; while, the farther one ventured into the interior,
the finer and more intelligent races he found. " Some of the
tribes," said he, " in Central Africa, bear little
or no resemblance
to negroes ; being tall, light-complexioned, ingenious,
and thoughtful men." Of what racial division of humanity
are these tribes the lingering remnants ? What of their
origin ? And when was their palmy period ?
AFRICA THE BIRTHPLACE OP THE SANSCKIT.
None interested in the " lost arts," or conversant with the
matchless grandeur of the past, need be informed that the
ancient Greek and Babylonian historians ever reverted to
Africa as the once garden of the world. And, marvelous
as it may seem, many of the root-words applied to the rivers
and mountains in Africa- are directly traceable to the
Sanscrit language. Wise spirits, of remotest antiquity on
earth, have assured us that the Sanscrit in distant, prehistoric
periods, was, if not the universal language, the language
of the cultured Africans. It was in Africa that this, the
most perfect of written languages, according to Sir William
Jones and other Orientalists, originated. Those primitive
peoples, acquainted with agriculture, mechanics, art, literature,
and withal becoming as ambitious as populous, moved
slowly off in time, through those regions denominated in
later periods Mizraim (Egypt), Assyria, Iran, Media, into
Central Asia, where, multiplying, they were called Aryas.
In a long-subsequent era, they swarmed out from those high
table-land localities in all directions. A branch of them met
and mingled with the progenitors of the Cathayans. The
Malays sprang from this intermixture. The more warlike
division of these Aryas that moVed southward, invading
India, came to be known as the Aryans.
This country, protected by mountains on the north, and
oceans on the south, largely escaped the vandal influences