Naturelle, tom.iii.p.449.

This Arab cast of features and complexion, which has continued 3400 years (Ludolph.Hist.et Comment.Aethiopic.l.i.c.

4) in the colony of Abyssinia, will justify the suspicion, that race, as well as climate, must have contributed to form the negroes of the adjacent and similar regions.

* Note: Mr.Salt (Travels, vol.ii.p.

458) considers them to be distinct from the Arabs--"in feature, color, habit, and manners."-- M.] [Footnote 93: The Portuguese missionaries, Alvarez, (Ramusio, tom.