logies and dissimilitudes, between an inferior type of mankind and a
superior type of monkey, require no comment.
A. B.
Three-quarter view of another Algerine negro— Front view of our Saharran-negro. Com-
“ Biskree.” 415 pare his tinted profile iti No. 26 of our
“ Ethnographic Tableau,”—from B. de
St. V.’s plate.
C. — D.
Gorilla-Gina, Is. Geoff. Troglodytes-Tshego,—
Duv. (Three-quarter view.) 416
Same animal.
(Front view.)
418 Galerie Royale de Costumes, folio, colored, Paris (Aubert & Cie., Place de Ja Bourse,
No. 29) ; “ Porteur à Alger,” Pl. 15.
416 Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 3me série, Zoologie, Paris, 185Î ; xvi. Pl. VII., figs. 1,
B ; and p p . 154-92. — Cf. also, D u y e r n o y , Comptes rendus de VAcad. des Sciences, 1853»
xxxvi. pp. 924-36.
Fig. B—as above stated, is the front view of the “ Saharran Negro ”
of whom our Tableau, No.'26, gives the profile. The color of the
original is a livid tawny black, chiefly due to drainage of blood , after
decapitation ; for it was drawn on the field of the skirmish. By com-
ceived1 W profile, its Simian expression will be the better per-
« i f ' A r La? “° hist017 ’ beyond the reference that his name was
Biskry, and that he happened to be a “ Porter at Algiers:” but
nomenc ature identifies the route by which he, or his progenitors,
reached A lgena, g the Oasis of Biskra.™ I infer that this was his
niek-name (soubriquet); because, in Arabic as in Hebrew,418 the
sufhx YÈ, ee(iod),' to a geographical appellative indicates the “ being
’ ° r’. * belonging to ” a locality ; so that our B iskrèe, from Biskrà,
means m English, the JBiskr-ian,
Hence we learn the road of his transit over the Sahara. In the
, original plate the color of his skin is a blackish-red brown ; and we
know that almost every shade, from a dirty yellow to a full ebony, is
to be met with among aborigines of Africa^-on which hereinafter.
ave purposely chosen this sample, which is wholly independent
o isory de St. Vincent’s, to substantiate the existence of such particular
types in North-western Africa/ Thirty-three years have
passed since, as a boy, I saw the bronzé “ Mori ” (Moors) in the Arsenal
of Leghorn. I stand correcte/ if this man is not one of the
same types.
Figs. C and B—are front and profile heads of the specimen, as yet
unique, of a perfect adult Gorilla; which, preserved in spirits, was
sent to the Parisian Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, in 1852, from the
Gaboon River, by Dr. Franquet.
If hypercriticism419 should object to renewed selection of extreme**
417 Peissk d’Avehnes’s Revue Orientale et Algérienne, Paris, 8vo., 1852- i —Peax “ Com
r s s r s r - ” •< « .
418 Types of Mankind, pp. 531-2.
419 The London Athmæum (June IT, 1854), in reviewing our last work, did not like the
contrasts afforded by placing the Apollo Belvidere, an African negro, and a Chimpanzee,
on the same plate. It was shown in the next number {Athmæum, June 24), that they were
copmd from the Accurate designs of an English a r t isW William Harvey, the pupil of Be-
420 Luke Bueke (Ethnological Journal, London, New Series, No. 1 Jan 1854- p 881
happlly SayS “ The best means of treating man properly is to treat him as we do the most
Clearly-defined portions of general zoology. Should we not, for instance, better promote
our knowledge of the dog, by carefully noting the most aberrant of his forms, than by any
therefore M f f j M Ü M Sh°Uld H “0t therefore, take the liberty of suggestmg to all engagedb ei n8 0p furistui ts of tihWis ki ndW, et hwaot utlhde!
best mode of consulting the interests of science is to think less of averages and more of