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336 TRAVEJ... S INAFRICA.or ways impassable.Perhaps, to many, snch a picture of the interiOl'of Africa is somewhat out of the orditmry train of ideas.proves that we do not yet kno\v quite enough of that country.If it be, itIn thewinter season, the mountaineers, tme Troglodytes*, lodge themselvesand theil' herds in caves, keeping aB warm hy great, fires; they proba-"bly have an ample supply of timber. They till the eal'th, and' Taise cornenough for their own consumption, commencing their labours when the,return of the sun invites them back from t.lleir caves to their villages.'Vho can hesitate in placing the solar ritual and astronomical invetSti~gation among the first impressions and, researches of the hmnan mincI ?'Vhere should man receive their strongest impressions but in such a situationas this? Consequently such are the primitive moral impressionsof the Troglodyte of Africa and the hcrdsman ofScythia. (Thenaviga-,tor,timidly at first venturing from cape to cape, explored in his way,and aIl combined to l'aise the superstructure of fable.) The solar ritualwas unqucstionably the first that would present itselfto the senses. Themind must be enlightencd at least by refiection, ifnot by revelation, toobtain a glimpse of a more just, but more abstracted one.-These modernTroglodyteshere heingunder little subjection to the general government,and having little or none amongst themselves, the tract theyoccupy is of course a continualscene of petty warfare betwecn the adjacentvillages, each np doubt containing withio its own bosom theseeds of concussion, Pompeys and Cœsars for within, Alexanders foroutside work, and consequent bloodshed; for whichreason, no manhere ventures out Qf his dweJling unarmed.and a crooked dagger.Theil' arms are a musketft is probable in theiT manners they cons.iderablyresemble the Druses of Lebanon: and son:lUch i~man subservient:il< Divest the giant Polyphemus ofbis poeti~l oruameuts, and what is he but a plain Troglodyte?