Africa

The colonization of África is effecting the same rcsulls on that continent, which the colonization of tuis country has effected here. It is but about fiity years sincc the English took possession of the Cape Colony, on the souihcrn extremity of Africa. Thcn the Iloitentot nation dwcllng thero consisied of two hundred thous:ind pei-sons - now it is extinct. Many pther once powerful tribes have pcrished or without broken and dying numbers have retreated into the interior. And ;he Gaffi'ee natioDj formo rl y irreaistabfe ift all fhaft rog?3T., ís malihïg lik e mt&before a July sun, or rather liko the Narragansetts or the Pcquots before the colonists of New England. The flag of Victoria now waves over a territory, at the Cape of Good Hope, as extensiva es fuur times tbc territory of tho whole a land of Great Britain. The majority of the tribes of Eastern África do not belong to what is usuallr called the Negro race. They are of a bright brown complexion, tal], handsome, vigorous, with forohcads, and of the usual plysical organization of the Caucasian or most enlightened racc3. The Wambungo tribe, who ro áide a Hule in the interior of the eastorn coast, is said to be composed of the hand somest people on the face of tho earth.- Their complexión is so fair, and they are spoken of by the Arab and Portu.