pyramids and ruins of the ancient Ethiopian will yet be in evidence.* When all the rest of the world was in darkness, this branch of mankind lived in cities and was skilled in the art of working in wood, metal and clay. It discovered the manufacture of malleable glass and the embalming of bodies, which today belong to the lost arts. THE KINKY-HAIRED HAMITE.-The kinky-haired branch of the Hamitic race originally occupied but a small area in west Africa, to which the parents of these people undoubtedly migrated from the seat of the earliest Ethiopian civilization. We have reasons to believe that this kinky-haired branch scarcely existed on the west coast of Africa at the time Moses led the Egyptian army into Ethiopia. (See history of Josephus.)

The white race has perhaps never given full credit to the colored branch of the human family for the complete sway it had in the world in prehistoric times as well as in the earliest record.ed history. Fresh proof that the ancient Ethiopians were a people of high culture and marked intellectual advancement is furnished by Prof. David Randall MacIver of the University of Pennsylvania, who has gathered a collection of antiquities from Nubia of much variety and

*See "The Footprints of the Hamitic or Negro Race in History," in the resume of this book, by Rev. John H. White, D. D.

artistic worth, aggregating five tons in weight. The articles he has gathered, Prof. MacIver says, represent early Negro civilization that lasted for at least seven centuries. Including among the antiquities are various works of art and also some Ethiopic inscriptions. Prof. MacIver adds: "Our excavations have shown that the source of civilization of the period which our work in lower Nubia covered was Ethiopian. All the Negro works of art were discovered in an extensive cemetery lying about ten feet under ground between Wady Halfa and Assouan in lower Nubia."

KINKY-HAIRED

WAS BUDDHA A NEGRO? Buddha, one of the greatest moṛal and religious reformers the world has ever known was, for instance, at least as much a socalled Negro as Frederick Douglass or Booker T. Washington. In the old statues extant he resembles often, in feature as well as in the curl of his hair, a Negro. More than three million Buddhists in Asia worship at the shrine of a Buddha who has Negro features as well as the crisped hair. And there are two other statues of Buddha, one in Calanse and one at Ceylon, which have the kinky hair and long, pendant earrings. The Daibutsu, or great Buddha at Ueno, Japan, is a monstrous image to which the people of Tokyo resort to worship, and pay tribute for the remis

sion of their sins. We give a pen drawing of the Daibutsu.

Compare the Daibutsu with the physiognomy of the yellow, red or white race, and you fail to

THE DAIBUTSU AT UENO, JAPAN.

There is a striking resemblance between this ancient statue and many leading men of the Afro-American race that no physiognomist can overlook. There is the same high forehead, the same eloquent eye, the same powerful nose, the same firm, passionate mouth, the same decisive chin and the same stubborn jaw we often meet in a leader of his race.

find any resemblance; but a cross between the Negro and Caucasian would produce features and talents like this Buddha possessed.

THE NEGRO.-The statement that the Negro or Ethiopian race is a young race, is, as already intimated, not really true. It is true that it is young in its present undeveloped state,

but this youth is its second childhood. The brown race and its prototype are the oldest in the world. And in passing we wish to say that we believe that there was a time when curly hair and a coffee-brown skin was considered a stamp of royalty among a people representing the highest culture and civilization of the world. This stamp of royalty was universally recognized and emulated, so much so that it is to this day imitated by many straight-haired people in the artificial curling of the hair.

The Ethiopian and other branches of the same family spread their civilization and culture into every part of the known world. They conquered the then existing wild tribes in various places, and amalgamated and assimilated them. Out of these amalgamations other great races in time sprang up, and in turn they conquered their ancient conquerers; but finally a remarkably strong, pink-skinned race made its appearance upon the world's arena; and while it was rapidly tainted with Ethiopian blood, it maintained its own, and adopted and absorbed all the glory and civilization of this wonderful dark-skinned people, who then slowly passed out of the foremost ranks of progress.

While a remnant of this people was in the lowest depths of savagery in the steaming, blistering jungles of equatorial Africa, thousands of