30 MUHAMEDAN move in a very different sphere from that in which we have been accustomed to move ; we must be much more energetic, more vigilant, and more active than we have been, with respect to African matters. It is presumed that these suggestions are well deserving the consideration of His Majesty's ministers. May they view with the eye of an eagle and the wisdom of the serpent the insidious encroachments that are thus making on our colonial markets !

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The Africans, by which term I mean the natives, viz. the Moors, the Arabs, the Berebbers, the Shelluhs, and the Negroes, (not the Jews, who, although numerous in this country, yet, as they are and have been ever since their Theocratical Government, a distinct race, and their customs and manners wellknown, I do not include them in the term Africans, although from thek birth they are entitled to the appellation,)— the Africans, I say, are seldom met with in closed rooms, but are constantly in the open air, transacting their business in dwariaSy which are detached rooms, or apartments, with three sides, the fourth being supported by pillars ; this custom of living continually in or exposed to the external air renders them strong and healthy, wherefore their bodies, by an antiperistasis, have the natural heat repelled and kept within, increasing by this action their appetite for food, which is always strong. They live in a frugal manner, seldom eating but of one food : the prevailing dish throughout North