der the beneficent influences of Christian
civilization.

FOOTNOTES:

[62] The following telegram shocks the civilized world. It serves
notice on the Christians of the civilized world, that, in a large
missionary sense, they have come far short of their duty to the
"nations beyond," who sit in darkness and the shadow of death.

"MASSACRE OF MAIDENS. LONDON, NOV. 10, 1881.--Advices from
Cape Coast Castle report that the king of Ashantee killed
two hundred young girls for the purpose of using their blood
for mixing mortar for repair of one of the state buildings.
The report of the massacre was received from a refugee
chosen for one of the victims. Such wholesale massacres are
known to be a custom with the king."--_Cinn. Commercial._

CHAPTER VI.

THE NEGRO TYPE.

CLIMATE THE CAUSE.--HIS GEOGRAPHICAL THEATRE.--HE IS
SUSCEPTIBLE TO CHRISTIANITY AND CIVILIZATION.

If the reader will turn to a map of Africa, the Mountains of the
Moon[63] will be found to run right through the centre of that
continent. They divide Africa into two almost equal parts. In a
dialectic sense, also, Africa is divided. The Mountains of the Moon,
running east and west, seem to be nature's dividing line between two
distinct peoples. North of these wonderful mountains the languages are
numerous and quite distinct, and lacking affinity. For centuries these
tribes have lived in the same latitude, under the same climatic
influences, and yet, without a written standard, have preserved the
idiomatic coloring of their tribal language without corruption. Thus
they have eluded the fate that has overtaken all other races who
without a written language, living together by the laws of affinity,
sooner or later have found one medium of speech as inevitable as
necessary.

But coming south of the Mountains of the Moon, until we reach the Cape
of Good Hope, there is to be found one great family. Nor is the
difference between the northern and southern tribes only linguistic.
The physiological difference between these people is great. They range
in color from the dead black up to pure white, and from the dwarfs on
the banks of the Casemanche to the tall and giant-like Vei tribe of
Cape Mount.

"The Fans which inhabit the mountain terraces are altogether
of a different complexion from the seacoast tribes. Their
hair is longer: that of the women hangs down in long braids
to their shou