NEGROES. 57 Haddenda; but he must pardon us if we style him Pecus campi, and express our surprise how he can be held in any respect or estimation whatever, even by his own race. He is great, powerful, rich in camels, horses, cattle; in constant barter-trading with Habesch, and therefore has to pay a heavy tribute. The uncle of the Scheik, a very aged man, is of true herculean figure, but rather stcmt. ]My brother cured him of a disease in the leg, and, as his fee, had also to give him some bottles of aragi. He is still, though very old, with white hair and limping, a wild fellow, and an old lance is never out of his hand. If by chance he has drunk too much aragi or merissa, no very rare occurrence and sees a handsome horse or camel (in his own land), he at once asks for it, and if the Arab owner does not immediately comply, away goes the old lance through him. For his ferocity and streugtli all fear him ; these, and his colossal figure, such as is seldom seen in this land, have gained him the name of Fill (Elephant).

( It is singular, that with the strong bodies that both Negroes and Arabs here possess, none have any calves to their legs — neither man, nor woman. In the Negresses especially, as also in most of the women of Bellad-Sudan, the posteriors and thighs are much developed, but the under part of the legs are like sticks. None can boast of finer arms than tliese races, the women's full and round, with well-turned elbows, and small delicate hands, the men's strong and muscular, the breast high and arched. Truly beautiful are the bosoms of the young maidens, and of the women who have not yet borne children ; small and most symmetrical in form, hard as stone to the touch, the nipples generally pointing outwards, ami in such an erect state, that not rarely the firda is worn through in front by them. But, alas ! alas ! for these beautiful bosoms after a single child-birth ! During child-bearing these are swollen, often to double their former size, and after the child has been long suckled, or at the end of that business, one sees on the youngest and prettiest wives, long empty breasts hanging down totlie belly, which, from their smoothness, limpness, and many folds, resemble two long empty tobacco pouchc-s, or, if one likes it better, two pieces of skin laid fiat on each other. Tliese repulsive looking bags they always leave bare and exposed to view, without the slightest blush, and it seems that here men's ideas of beauty in a woman do not