Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-03-24
ANOTHER INTERESTING LEG
TURE.

The celebrated traveller, N. Du Chail-
lu, delivered his Third Lecture on the
subject Of his travels in Africa, in New
York city, on the 2sth of February last.
This Lecture referred to the Tribes Of
Equatorial Africa, among and near
whom he lived Tor twelve years. We
make a condensed abstract OF this truly
interesting Lecture, which we find pub
lished entire in a Now York paper. He
said that language, like the races Of
men, disappear and become entirely OBJ
liberated from the face Of tho earth,
never to come back again, He was sur
prised ut the analogy of disintregation
that the negro population of Africa pre-
sented with that of tue aboriginees Of
America. Both continents possessed a
great number Of languages, aud the
population of both was divided into a
great number of tribes, but America
possesses remains showing that once its
inhabitants enjoyed II certain degree OF
civilization, and that the race possessed
a certain progressive power in itself
which was necessary to lead them on to
the condition they attained. There
seems to be among all the races Of nan
kind ~permanency Of type, aud when in
the course of time changes arc to take
place, it can only be foreseen in the
progressive Caucasian type, for the rea-
son that progression in all other types
has ceased-aud not only ceased, but
their extinction is surely taking place.
II all the races Of mankind came from
n single primeval type, and as VIC see
that there is progression, he was in
cliued to believe that the Hottentot and
negro were the Oldest races Of those
now living. He believed firmly in the
decline Of the vital energies Of men, and
in the extinction Of the races Of men,
with the exception Of the progressive
| Caucasian races. Hence the Hottentot
and Bushmen, the lowest type Of the
negro, will disappear first; and tho Aus
t~ralian, P~olyuesiau ana American In
dian and others, being the lowest rep
resentatives of tho Monaghan, will dis
appear also. N. du Chaillu continued
that he was amazed when he heard it
asserted that the white man was tho
cause OF the extinction Of the abort
giues wherever became into contact with
them, rs If races had only been disap-
pearing Of late. Good and kind-hearted
people will tell you that rs o as these
communities Of sayages become alb
sorbed the decrease will stop, as they
will become as intelligent as the eau
casiau. He need hardly mention what
all had heard Of before the discoveries,
which had been made in America and
Europe concerning the antiquity ofmen.
The mounds discovered in America
have shown in the most conclusive man
ner that once there existed II race OF
men here more intelligent than the abo-
rhymes of the present day. The ruins
and remains found in Central America
and Peru testify to the same fact. He
believed in the progression Of the eau
casion race, aud could foresce the time
when il would here show more life, more
energy and more intellectual develop
ment than the people OF Europe are
showing already. This the lecturer at
tributed mainly to the intcrmixing OF
the different families Of the Caucasi an
race, which was most beneficial. The
intermixiug of the different types he
considered as most injurious, and said
that wherever it has taken place upon a
large scale it has poisoned the whole
population, and he cited Mexico, St.
Domingo, and other countries rs exam
Piles to warn us against this violation Of
this law of nature. History, he said,
has taught US that when superior races
have come into contact with inferior
races, the inferior has never caught the
civilization of the superior: They may
have copied some part Of it, but no
more. He believed the Caucasian race
to be tho most vigorous and the last
type of progressive development in the
human family.