with the fact that the same type, during some eight or ten generations
of sojourn in the United States, is still preserved, despite of
transplantation.
The following representation (Fig. 167) is traced upon a spirited
reduction hy Cherubini.309 I t is a double, file of Negroes and Barabra
(Nubians), bound, and driven before his chariot hy Ramses II., at
Aboosimbel. This picture answers well as a complement to the two
F ig . 167.
preceding; for we here have the brown Nubian — a dark one, and a
light-colored f a m i l y — admirably contrasted with the jet-black Negro;
thus proving that the same divisions of African races existed then as
now, above the first cataract of the Nile at Syene.^
One of the same series (Fig. 168), on a larger
F ig. 168. sca]e; taken from Rosellini.310; Ii>should he observed
that he is shaded browner than the next
head (Fig. 169); thereby showing the two commonest
colors and physiognomical lineaments
prevalent among Nubian BarHbra of the present
day; who, whether owing to amalgamation, or
from original type, approach closer to,,the Negro
than do the adjacent tribes — Ababdeh, Bishariba,
&c. ^SHr
The same group supplies a lighter (cinnamon)' shaded sample of a
Nubian Berberri (Fig. 169); whose name in the Arabic plural is Bar-
Ubra. The identical designation, BaRaBaRa, is apphed to the same
people in the sculptures of several Pharaohs of the XVHth and
XVHIth dynasties, 1500 years b . c .311
F ig . 169. F ig . 170.
To render the contrast more striking, we place in juxta-position an
enlarged head (Fig. 170) of the last Negro from the above prisoners.
The face is ingeniously distorted hy the Egyptian artist, who represents
this captive bellowing with rage and pain.
One of Mr. Gliddon’s personal verifications on the Nile is here
worthy of note. He observed that the fusion between Nubian and
modern Arab races is first clearly apparent, exactly where nature had
placed the boundary-line between Egypt and Nubia: viz., at the first
cataract. Here dwell the Shellcdees, or “ cataract-men” — descended,
it is said, from intermixture between the Saracenic garrisons at Assouan
and the women of Lower Nubia. Persian, Greek, and Roman
troops had been consecutively stationed there, centuries before the
Arabs; while European and American tourists at the present day
cooperate vigorously to stem the blackening element as it flotvs in
from the South. The ShelUlees count perhaps 500 adults and children;
and they are mulattoes of various hues, compounded of Nubian, Arab,
Egyptian, Turkish, and European blood; whilst, incidentally, Negresses
enter as slaves among the less impoverished families—their cost there
seldom exceeding fifty dollars. But, the predominating color, especially
among the female Shelall&eyeh, is alight
cinnamon; and in both sexes are seen Fiq 171313
some of the most beautiful forms of humanity;
as may be judged from the
“ Nubian Girl,” so tastefully portrayed
by Prisse d’Avesnes.312
This (Fig. 171) is the type of the
NaHSU {Negroes), on a larger scale,
among the four races in the tomb of
S e t i -M e n e p th a I . ; before spoken of,
and delineated at full length on pages
85 and 249, supra.
Beautifully drawn and strikingly contrasted, see two of the nine
Asiatic and African heads (Fig. 172) smitten by king, Seti I., at