which they thrive, multiply, and are happy, have actually claimed
St. Augustine, Eratosthenes, Juha, Hannibal, and other great men,
as historical vouchers for the perfectibility of the Negro race, because
horn in Africa! I t might hence he argued that “ birth in a stable
makes a man a horse.” We submit the following portraits.
E r a t o s t h e n e s 126 (Eig. 36), born at the Greek
colony of Cyrene, on the coast of Barbaty, about
2 7 6 b. c. What more perfect sample of the
Greek historical type could be desired ?
H a n n ib a l 127 (Eig. 37 ), son of Mamilear Barcas,
horn at Carthage, about b . c. 247. The highest
“ Caucasian ” type is so strongly marked in his
face, that, if his father was a Phcenieo-Carthagi-
nian, one would suspect that his mother, as
among the Ottomans and Persians of the present
day, was an imported white slave, or other female
of the purest Japhetic race.
F ig . 37.
F ig. 38.
J u b a 128 (Fig. 38), son of Hiempsal,
king of Humidia, ascended the
throne about b . c. 50. If not Berber
(and we have no means of comparison),
the Arab type predominates
in his countenance; and that this
closely approximated to the true
Tyrian, or Phoenician, is evident
by comparing it with the features
of an ancient citizen of Tyre (Eig.
39), figured at Thebes, in the reign
Fig . 39.
of Ramses HL, of the XXth dynasty, during the thirteenth century
B. C.m
Abundant illustrations of the permanence of type, in other varieties
of Semitish races, will he given in due course ; but, on our road to
Persia, let us indicate a Syrian form, in this mountaineer of Lebanon130
(Eig. 40), from the conquests of the same Ramses ; and contrast it
with a genuine Cushite Arab, or Himyarite131 (Eig. 41), who appears
in the tomb of Seti-Meneptha L, about 1400 years b . c.
F ig . 40.
As we cross through Chaldsea, we again encounter (Eig. 42) the
true Jewish type in the land of its origin. A full-length figure of
this individual will he given in a
succeeding Chapter; and it is the Pig- 42.
more curious, inasmuch as we behold
in its design an Egyptian artist’s
conception, of a Chaldee during
the fifteenth century b . c. ; that is,
about 500 years before any cuneiform
monuments yet found, and 600
years before any Jewish records, now
known, were inscribed or written.
Persian monumental ethnography,
(like, the native, the Hebrew,
and the Greek chronicles of that Iranian land,) can but commence
with Cy r u s —that mighty name, which, until recent hieroglyphical
and cuneatic discoveries threw open the portals of ages anterior,
marked the. grand terminus of historical knowledge concerning
Oriental events and nations. We accompany the following series
with R aw l in so n ’s translation of the Persepolitan arrow-headed
legends. -
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F ig . 41.