These races are constantly at war with each other.
'Daaga was just the man whom a savage, warlike, and depredatory tribe would select for their chieftain, as the African Negroes choose their leaders with reference to their personal prowess.

Daaga stood six feet six inches without shoes.

Although scarcely muscular in proportion, yet his frame indicated in a singular degree the union of irresistible strength and activity.

His head was large; his features had all the peculiar traits which distinguish the Negro in a remarkable degree; his jaw was long, eyes large and protruded, high cheek-bones, and flat nose; his teeth were large and regular.

He had a singular cast in his eyes, not quite amounting to that obliquity of the visual organs denominated a squint, but sufficient to give his features a peculiarly forbidding appearance;- -his forehead, however, although small in proportion to his enormous head, was remarkably compact and well formed.