Scvcji Vca?'s in the Soitdan.

Tliis is certainly not the ])lace for ethnographical disquisitions ; but I will merely remark that the family of the Fungi Avhich inhabits an extensive territoiy on the banks of the Blue Nile, cannot be other than direct descendants of the fine aboriginal Arabo-Ethiopian family. The colour of their skin, their slender forms, their brilliant eyes and aquiline features, present the principal outlines of the Ethiopians. If "we remember rightly, some historians assert that the Sennaar race emigrated from the equator four centuries ago, and founded the tribe of the Fungi, establishing a powerful and renowned dynasty. Our opinion does not agree with this view ; it Avould be necessary, in order to do so, to forget what sort of peo])le could emigrate from the equator to found a civilized kingdom and powerful dynasty ; to forget the brave army of King Fungi, which, though vanquished by Ishmael Pasha in the celebrated battle of Abu Shoka in June, 1823, won the admiration of its conquerors, and, by its valour, twined a noble Avreath around the touib of a people which Avas dying out. The equator could only contribute a familj- of savages, and from these could not be derived the type of a civilized race, of a laborious and active ])eople, who opened commerce with the world by sending the products of its industry to the markets of Europe. It is difficult to form a clear and precise idea of how much good one might derive from planting a colon}' in these lands, which enjoy the smiles of a tropical climate, and can oppose to the excessive heat of the African sun an abundant supply of water, which, if aided by mechanical force and canals of irrigation, Avould promote a luxuriant and rich vegetation. AVhat grows at present in this immense extent of country is all natural. Ma 71 does not take the trouble to leiid a hand to prodigal nature, and it is not even necessary that he should, because the cultivated part abundiuitly suffices for the Avants of a people who are among the most frugal.