198 OF THE EXCAVATED RESIDENCES OF THE INHABITANTS OF ATLAS : THE ACEPHALIy HEL SHUAL, AND HEL ELKILLEB: The Discovery of Africa not to he effected hy the present System of solitary Travellers ; but by a grand Plan, with a numerous Company; beginning with Commerce, as the natural Prelude to Discovery, the Tore-runner of Civilization, and a preliminary Step, indispensable to the Conversion of the 7iative Negroes to Christianity.

Ihe inhabitants of the snowy or upper regions of the Atlas live, during the months of November, December, January, February, and half of March, in caves or excavations in the mountains ; the snow then disappears, and they begin to cultivate the earth.

I have repeatedly heard reports of the (Hel el Killeh,) dog-faced race ; of the {Hel Shual,) tailed race ; and of the race having one eye * Apollonius Rhodius calls these people rtixiKwef or halfdogs.

The ingenious author of Philosophic Researches concerning the Americans, speaking of a race which appear to resemble the Acephali of Herodotus, or the race of men