Since the above note was written, Mr. Gliddon has obligingly furnished me with the following interesting memorandum: “The name Nubia, with its derivatives of Nouba and Noubatæ, may be readily traced to _Noubnoub_, a Nubian divinity in the hieroglyphical legends of Menepthah I. and Rameses II. and III., and may possibly be derived from the root _noub_, gold, from the proximity of Nubia to the Ethiopian gold countries. The word _Berber_, as applied to the people of Nubia, (now called Berabera in the plural, from Berberri, the singular,) is without question derived from the hieroglyphical name _Barobaro_, by which at least one tribe inhabiting Nubia was known to the Egyptians of the 18th dynasty.” Footnote 108: Clot Bey states the present black population of Egypt to be twenty thousand; and he adds that Negresses form the greater number of women in almost every harem. Aperçu Générale de l’Egypte, I., p. 329. Footnote 109: Sir G. Wilkinson observes that “no difficulty occurred to the Ishmaelites in the purchase of Joseph from his brethren, nor on his subsequent sale to Potiphar on arriving in Egypt.” Ancient Egyptians, I., p. 404. Footnote 110: A passage in Manetho establishes at the same time the antiquity and the power of eunuchs in Egypt; for he relates that king Ammenemes, of the twelfth dynasty, was slain by them. This event will date, by the received chronology, upwards of twenty-two hundred years B.C. Cory, Frag., p. 110. Eunuchs appear, also, to be figured on the monuments. Vide Rosellini, M. C. III., p. 133. Footnote 111: Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, II., p. 64. Footnote 112: Notwithstanding this mixture of nations, Mr. Hoskins observes, that the higher classes of modern Ethiopians (Nubians,) pay great respect to the distinctions of race; that they esteem nothing more than a light complexion, which the petty kings or chiefs make a prerequisite to the selection of wives; and that, with this class, “all mixture with the Negro blood is carefully shunned.”—Travels in Ethiopia, p. 357. Footnote 113: Rosellini, Appendix, No. 13.—Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, Vol. III. Footnote 114: Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia. Procession, Part First. Footnote 115: Topography of Thebes, p. 136. Footnote 116: Champollion, Monumens de l’Egypte, Plate CX. Footnote 117: Vide Champollion, Monumens de l’Egypte, Tom. I., Plate LXXI., LXXII.; and Rosellini, Monumenti, M. R., Tav. LXXV. A glance at these illustrations will convince any one that the slave-hunts or _ghrazzies_, as now practised by the Arabs, Tuaricks and Turks, and which are so feelingly described by Cailliaud, and by Denham and Clapperton, were in active operation, with all their atrocities, in the most flourishing periods of Pharaonic Egypt. Footnote 118: