ifferent measures
230 from what we have adopted; we must move in a very different sphere
from that in which we have been accustomed to move; we must be much
more energetic, more vigilant, and more active than we have been,
with respect to African matters. It is presumed that these
suggestions are well deserving the consideration of His Majesty's
ministers. May they view with the eye of an eagle and the wisdom of
the serpent the insidious encroachments that are thus making on our
colonial markets!!

The Africans, by which term I mean the natives, viz. the Moors, the
Arabs, the Berebbers, the Shelluhs, and the Negroes, (not the Jews,
who, although numerous in this country, yet, as they are and have
been ever since their Theocratical Government, a distinct race, and
their customs and manners well known, I do not include them in the
term Africans, although from their birth they are entitled to the
appellation,)--the Africans, I say, are seldom met with in closed
rooms, but are constantly in the open air, transacting their
business in _dwarias_, which are detached rooms, or apartments,
with three sides, the fourth being supported by pillars; this
custom of living continually in or exposed to the external air
renders them strong and healthy, wherefore their bodies, by an
_antiperistasis_, have the natural heat repelled and kept within,
increasing by this action their appetite for food, which is always
strong. They live in a frugal manner, seldom eating but of one
231 food: the prevailing dish throughout North Africa is cuscasoe, a
granulated paste, cooked by steam, and garnished with vegetables,
and chickens, or mutton; this is a very nutritive, palatable, and
wholesome dish. They are not incumbered at their meals with a
variety of dishes; but a large bowl, or spacious plate, is
introduced on a round table, supported by one pillar, like the
_Monopodia_ of the ancients, rather larger than the bowl or dish,
and about six inches high. Half a dozen Moors sit round this
repast, on cushions or on the ground, cross-legged; a position
which they remain in with perfect ease and pliability from custom
and the loose dress they wear. When the company have seated
themselves, a slave or a servant comes round to the guests, to
perform the ceremony of (_togreda_) washing o