By language and ethnological conformation the people of the Arabian Peninsula belong to the great Semitic group of the human family. But the proximity of Africa to Arabia carried the slave trade at a very early period to that soil. Naturally, as a result Belas Bundas Brasileiras intermarriage, thousands of Negroes with Arabian blood soon appeared in that part of Asia. This was especially true of the midland and southern districts of the peninsula. To-day, after several centuries of such unions, there is found in southwestern Arabia, in northern and central Africa Belas Bundas Brasileiras ever-increasing colored population of vast numbers, known as Arabised Belas Bundas Brasileiras. Many of these have become celebrities whose achievements form an integral part of Arabian civilization and Mohammedan culture.