Nebraska advertiser., 1863-01-24
For the Nebraska Advertiser.
. Diversity OF Human Races.
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s. The Albinos we see in small num-
number in Africa, in Asia, and IN
America, form. among The generality
of men, neither a species, nor a race,
NOR a nation, nor a variety, because they
are merely individuals of Moorish or
Negro-race. whose constitution has been
violently altered. They.are to the black
race about what formerly were for the
white race, in Europe and in Asia, the
Leper, and what are still to-day the
Cretins in the YalaIs, namely: men de.
generated and degraded in all their nat
ural faculties. Such are the wanfaced
men otthe Isthmus of Panama in Amer
lea, the Dundas of Africa, Khalkapions
of ASA; three names which signify but
the same class Of men, to which we
often give the common appelation of
White-negroes or Albinos.
"The Negroes" says the author of
Philosophical Researches upon the Amer
leans, "are liable TO certain diseases or
indispositions which cause them to lose
their natural color, and this metamor-
phosis which alters the basis of their
constitution and organization, is accompa-
MED among them with frigh!ful symp-
toms. Their body swells, their skin be-
comes like a white-washed cloth, before
being smothed with an iron, their iris
becomes. dim and n~ebulous, and every
object looks dull to them, as they look
yellow TO Europeans when attacked by
icterus or jaundice /; their retlna is weak
and diseased, cannot bear the impression
Of. the light; in daytime their pupil is SO
contracted4hat it is not perceivable, and
at night it is 50 amply dilated, that they
can see sufficiently we'll 10 travel, and to
go hunting in the ihicKest forests."-
Such are the Albinos of Africa, of Asia,
of America !; they are born of Negro or
Moorish parents, and in this state of
sickness and degeneration, their longest
life does not extend beyond thirty years.
1t is Hare for them to leave any posteri-
ty and if some are found among them
whose nature is not vitiated sufficiently
to be totally barren, their children are
like their original race, Negroes, OF
Moors, or bronzed colored.
Plinus and Solinus tell US that there
existed formerly monsters of this kind in
Albania, west of the Caspian sea they
scarcely exist to-day except within the
torrid zone, between the tenth degree on
each side of the equator. They are
even everywhere very rare and in the
Isthmus of Panama, where they are mosI
numerous, because it is the unhealthiesl
climate on our globe, on three or four
hundred bronze colored Darians we find
but one 1AlbinO. xfe
9. S~trahlemberg reports that, in sly.
IBERIA, in the vicinity of K~rasnovarsk
neal the river Yeniseisk, may be seer
e led men, who are said to be de.
~scendants Of a tribe formerly numerous
and now nearly extinct, hat was called
piebald, or spotted, or streaked- The
modern observers, such as Gmelin, and
the author of the Notes on the Geneal-
ogical History of the Tartars. after hav.
ing by themselves, by their interpreters,
by their correspondents, taken the mos
complete infor nation throughout all Sy.
IBERIA, agree that it is verified that there
was in Syberia, a horde of that name
but that it was not true hat the individ-
gals which composed it were all spotted
with white and black. When asked
whether they we're born with that variety
or whether it was brought on by disease,
they answered that they were sometimes
born With it, and that some times it was
brought on BY disease,