[65] Captain Burton (ii. 165) also quotes a Catholic and a Protestant missionary as to this point. M. Wallon says, "Avec leur tendance à nous considérer comme réellement supérieurs à eux, et leur croyance que cette supériorité nous est acquise par celle de notre Dieu, ils renonceraient bientôt aux leurs idoles pour adorer celui qui nous leur prions de connaître." Mr Dawson says, "Fetish has been strengthened by the white man, whom the ignorant blacks would not scruple to call a god if he could avoid death." Assuming the identity of Bacchus and Noah, it is a striking circumstance, from this point of view, that the name of _Bacchus_, among the Phoenicians, was a synonymous term for mourning.--_Vide Hesychius in Bryant's "Mythology,"_ ii. 335; _vide also the verses of Theocritus_. Comp. p. 247, _note_ (Boulanger). [66] Perhaps Captain Burton's phrase (ii. 178), "the _arrested_ physical development of the negro," may, if extended to his mental development, exactly hit the truth, the standard being fixed by the age at which we conceive the boy Chanaan's development to have been _arrested_.--Comp. _Wallace, infra_, p. 91; comp. 217. Among the Sioux Indians, and in the isle of Tonga (Oceanica), I find trace of the tradition of blackness as a curse, and I should think it likely that other instances might be discovered. The former (the Sioux), in their reminiscences of the Deluge, relate, "The water remained on the earth only two days (for the two months during which the Scripture says it was at its height), at the expiration of which the Master of Life, seeing that they had need of fire, sent it them by a white crow, which, stopping to devour carrion, allowed the fire to be extinguished. He returned to heaven to seek it. The Great Spirit drove it away, and punished it by _striking it black_."--"_Annales de la Prop. de la Foi_," l. iv. 537; Gainet, i. 211. In Tonga, the tradition is connected with this history of Cain:-- "The god Tangaloa,[67] who first inhabited this earth, is this Adam. He had two sons, who went to live at Boloton.... The younger was very clever. Tonbo (the eldest) was very different; he did nothing but walk about, sleep, and covet the works of his brother. One day he met his brother out walking, and knocked him down. Then their father arrived at Boloton, and in great anger said, 'Why has thou killed thy brother. Fly, wretched man; fly. _Your race shall be black_, and your soul depraved; you shall labour without success. Begone; you shall not go to the land of your brother, but your brother shall come sometimes to trade with you.' And he said to the family of the victim, 'Go towards the great land; your skin shall be white; you shall excel in all good things.'"--_Gainet_, i. 93.[68] [67] "Annales de Philos. Chret.," t. xiii. p. 235.