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A NEGRO WÈDDING. 321of spectators, numerously as may be supposed In âcountry and lifewhere people havelittle t6 do save to look around them. Three negresses,covered with what were to them ornaments because they think them so,danced with aIl their graces, and with the clank of metal castanets, to thesullen dub of Hvo drums beaten with crooked sticks.describe the dance.contained.It is not easy toIt certainly was long enough, for aIl the variety itTo our vulgar ideas, that which seemed to approach nearestto it was what the veridical Gulliver records ofthe exhibitions before thecourt of Lilliput,-jumping and creeping.The human race is hereto he sure strangely heterogeneous, so far as the term may he allowed.Egyptians, Vandals, Arabs, Negroes, Jews, Christians, ~fohommedans,Idolaters, Fîre-wo'r'shippers, $abeans,l1ave aH contributed a quota to thepopulation of thls borâerofthe A tHmtic. The politiea! organization 15now strangely chequered. The throne i5 in the possession of an Arahian :yet the Arabs are not the favoured people :-they are, whether it he causeor effect, too, the refractory part of the community.The people of theplains once, now the civic race, the descendants of the cÎtizens of Carthageand subjects of Jugurtha, are the nearest about this Meccan tbrone,the stability whereof is upheld by negroes nom Tombuctoo on the coastof Guinea. 'l'he same man who, if kidnapped at his parent's door andbrought westward, should handle the hoe if sold in a northerly direction,wields the baton ofcommand;and by his talents, steadiness, and bravery,Îs consideréd the pillar of the state. The same female who, if exported.across th~ Atlantic, should daily he lacerated by the stripes of the cowskin,bethe daily victim of the brutality of one sex and malignity of the,other, now sits upon 'a tllfone, becau!e chance pointed her eaptivityhither. ,Many, no doubt, does this saUle chance doom unmeritedly ineither directiQD!It is hardly possible to over-rate the Negro character2T