NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA.
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earth. Neither the diseases nor the ardent spirits
which proved so fatal to the North American
Indians, the South Sea Islanders and Australians,
seem capable of annihilating the Negroes. They
are gifted with physical strength capable of with¬
standing the severest privations. Many would
pine away in a state of slavery. . No Krooman can
be converted into a slave, and yet he is an inhabit¬
ant of the low, unhealthy west coast; nor can any
of the Zulu or Kaffir tribe be reduced to bondage,
though all these live in comparatively elevated
regions. We have heard it stated by men familiar
with some of the Kaffirs, that a blow given, even
in play, by a European, must be returned. A love
of liberty is observable in all who have the Zulu
blood, as the Makololo, the Watuta. But blood
does not explain the fact. A beautiful Barotse
woman at Naliele, on refusing to marry a man
whom she did not like, was, in a pet, given by the
headman to some Mambari slave traders from Ben-
guela. Seeing her fate, she seized one of their
spears, and, stabbing herself, fell dead."—Living¬
stone s Works.
" In ancient times the blacks were known to be
so gentle to strangers that many believed that the
gods sprang from them. Homer sings of the ocean,
father of the gods, and says that when Jupiter
wishes to take a holiday, he visits the sea, and goes
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