THE EXCAVATED RESIDENCES
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OF THE
INHABITANTS OF ATLAS:
THE
ACEPHALI, HEL SHUAL, AND HEL ELKILLEB:
The Discovery of Africa not to be effected by the present System of solitary Travellers; but by a grand Plan, with a numerous Company; beginning with Commerce, as the natural Prelude to Discovery, the Fore-runner of Civilization, and a preliminary Step, indispensable to the Conversion of the native Negroes to Christianity.
The inhabitants of the snowy or upper regions of the Atlas live, during the months of November, December, January, February, and half of March, in caves or excavations in the mountains; the snow then disappears, and they begin to cultivate the earth.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Footnote 146: (return) Apollonius Rhodius calls these people [Greek: ημικυγες êmikuges] or half-dogs.Note 2 · Footnote 147: (return) The ingenious author of Philosophic Researches concerning the Americans, speaking of a race which appear to resemble Note 3 · Footnote 148: (return) We have heard of a pig-faced lady; if there is such a person, there might also be a pig-faced gentleman, and these miNote 4 · Footnote 149: (return) Seven Cubits make four English yards.Note 5 · Footnote 150: (return) The best description I can give of a jelabea is this: Take a large sack and cut a hole in the bottom, big enough to aNote 6 · I have repeatedly heard reports of the (Helel Killeb, 146) dog-faced race; of the (Hel Shual,) tailed race; and of the race having one eye,