the art of forcery? Was it the fame people who built the Pyramids ? "I can't understand that the Turks have a better opinion of our mental powers than we have of theirs; but they say of us that we are a people who carry our minds in our finger ends: meaning that we put them in exercise constantly, and render them fubfervient to all manner of purposes, and with celerity, difpatch and ease do what we do. "I fufpect the Copts to have been the origin of the negro race: The nose and lips correfpond with those of the negro. The hair, whenever I can fee it among the people here (the Copts) is curled: not close like the negroes, but like the mallattoes. I obferve a greater variety of colour among the human fpecies here, than other country, and a greater variety of feature, than in any other country not poffeffing a greater degree of civilization. in any "I have seen an Abyffinian woman, and a Bengal man; the colour is the fame in both; fo are their features and perfons. "I have seen a small mummy: it has what I call wampum work on it. It appears as common here as among the Tartars. Tatowing is as prevalent among the Arabs of this place, as among the fouth-fea islanders. It is a little curious, that the women here are more generally than in any other part of the world tatowed on the chin, with perpendicular lines descending from the under lip to the chin, like the women on the north-west coast of America. It is also a custom here, to stain the nails red, like the Cohin Chinese and the northern Tartars. The mask or veil that the women here wear, resembles exactly that worn by the priests at Otahaite, and those seen at Sandwich islands. "I have not yet feen the Arabs make ufe of a tool like our axe or hatchet; but what they use for such purpofes as our hatchet or axe, is in the form of an adze, and is a form we found moft agreeable to the south-sea VOL. I. N iflanders. I fee no inftance of a tool formed defignedly for the use of the right or left hand particularly, as the cotogon is among the Yorkertick Tartars. "There is a remarkable affinity between the Ruffian and the Greek drefs. The fillet round the temples of the Greek and Ruffian women, is a circumstance of dress that perhaps would strike nobody as it does me; and fo of the wampum work too, which is also found among them both. They fpin here with the distaff and fpindle only, like the French peafantry and others in Europe; and the common Arab loom is upon our principle, though rude. "I faw to-day (Aug. 10.) an Arab woman white, like the white Indians in the South Sea islands, Ifthmus of Darien, &c. Thefe kind of people all look alike. Among the Greek women here, I find the incidental Archangel head drefs. 66 : "Their mufic is inftrumental, confifting of a drum and pipe; both which resemble those two inftruments in the fouth feas the drum is exactly like the Otaheite drum; the pipe is made of cane, and confifts of a long and fhort tube joined; the mufic refembles very much the bagpipe, and is pleasant. All their mufic is concluded, if not accompanied, by the clapping of hands. I think it fingular, that the women here make a noise with their mouths like frogs, and that this frog mufic is always made at weddings, and I believe on all other occafions of merriment where there are women. "It is remarkable that the dogs here are of just the fame fpecies found among the Otaheitians. "It is alfo remarkable, that in one village I faw exactly the fame machines used for diverfion as in Ruffia. I forgot the Ruffian name for it. It is a large kind of wheel, on the extremities of which there are fufpended feats, in which the people are whirled round over and under each other. "The women dress their hair behind exactly in the fame manner in which the Calmuck Tartars drefs theirs. "In the history of the kingdom of Benin in Guinea, the chiefs are called Aree Roee, or ftreet kings. Among the islands in the fouth fea, Otaheite, &c. they call the chiefs Arees, and the great chiefs Aree le hoi, I think this curious; and fo I do, that it is a custom of the Arabs to spread a blanket when they would invite any one to eat or reft with them. American Indians fpread the beaver fkins on fuch occafions. "It is fingular, that the Arab language has no word for liberty, although it has for flaves. "The Arabs, like the new Zealanders, engage with a long strong spear. "The Mahometaus are in Africa what the Ruffians are in Siberia, a trading, enterprifing, fuperftitious, warlike set of vagabonds; and wherever they are set upon going, they will, and do go; but they neither can nor do make voyages merely commercial, or merely religious, acrofs Africa; and where we do not find them in commerce, we find them not at all. They cannot (however vehemently pushed on by religion) afford to crofs the continent without trading by the way. RIGHTS of WOMEN, From the St James's Chronicle. -PSHAW, fays I, Mr Baldwin-rights of a fiddlestick! rights of men, indeed! I fhould not have thought of the be creatures talking fo much about their rightswhile the rights of women lie neglected-This indeed would be a fubject-were not, as my friend Mr Burke fays, the age of chivalry gone!" " Have not we RIGHTS, Mr Baldwin, rights indifputable, natural, abstract, and social, and civil, and municipal? are not "all women equal?" Have they not a natural right to the privilege of fpeech, and have they ever bafely bartered that right? Have they not the abfract right of vifiting from home when they please ? And what did they do when even Monsters were employed to deprive them of this right? Did they stay at home, mending stockings, darning gloves, making holes for fleeve-buttons, and quilting counterpanes ?-NoSir-they vifited ten times more! Have they not the focial right of preference in all focieties? Do they not take precedence of every thing in breeches, every proud he-creature that calls himself a lord of the Creation? Have they not the highest right of all-the right of governing their husbands? Who dare deny this? A right, Sir, for which they paid no fmall price; for, to obtain it, and to have leisure and time to exercife it, they gave up another rightthe right of governing themselves! Among their civil rights, are we not to reckon the right of fcolding, crying, falling into fits, going to watering places, and running up bills? Shall the haughty aristocracy of men deny us these rights! No-Mr. Baldwin-no-Perish the ignoble thought -Women, Sir, have rights- and the time will come when the answerers of Burke (I am told they are all bachelors or old maids) fhall be ashamed of themselves -and view us with the gallant eyes of a Burke, "just rifing above the horizon." But I beg pardon, Mr. Baldwin--I trouble you with this only because my brother Sam will not write on the fubject-forfooth he fays we have more rights than we know what to do with-Well-we are but like others of the liberty-men of this country who don't know when they are well off. Your's, Mr. Baldwin, JENNY SARCASM. On Converfation. A GREAT talent for converfation requires at least to be accompanied with a great degree of politenefs. He 'who outfhines others, owes to them a great deal of po. lite attention. Seafon for remembering the Poor. STERN winter is come with his cold chilling breath, All nature seems touch'd with the finger of death, When wanton young lads o'er the river can flide, When in plenty you fit by a good fire-fide, Sure you ought to remember the POOR. When the cold feather'd fnow does in fleeces defcend, And whiten the profpects around; When the keen cutting winds from the north do attend, Hard incruftating over the ground; When the poor harmless hare may be trac'd to the wood By her footsteps indented in fnow ; When the lips and the fingers are starting with blood; When the markfmen a cock-fi.ooting go; When the poor Robin red-breast approaches the cot; When the icicles hang at the door; When the bowl smokes with fomething reviving and hot; That's the time to remember the POOR. When a thaw fhall enfue, and the waters increase, And the winds fhall violent grow; When the fishes from prifon obtain a release; When in danger the travellers go; When the meadows are hid by the proud fwelling flood; When the bridges are useful no more; When in health you enjoy every thing that is good, Since death is depriv'd of its all killing fting, Saints, Angels, and men, Hallelujahs thould fing, |
