CHAPTER III. 



THE AFRICAN NEGRO : I. SUDANESE. 



Conspectus The Negro-Caucasic "Great Divide" -The Negro Domain- 

 Negro Origins Persistence of the Negro Type Two Main Sections : 

 Sudanese and Bantus -Contrasts and Analogies Sudanese and Bantu 

 Linguistic Areas The "Drum Language" -West Sudanese Groups 

 The Wolofs: Primitive Speech and Pottery; Religious Notions The 

 Mandingans : Culture and Industries ; History ; the Guine and Mali 

 Empires The Felups: Contrasts between the Inland and Coast Peoples; 

 Felup Type and Mental Characters Timni; African Freemasonry The 

 Sierra Leonese Social Relations The Liberians The Kruinen The 

 Upper Guinea Peoples Table of the Gold Coast and Slave Coast Tribes 

 Ashanti Folklore Fetishism ; its true inwardness Ancestry Worship and 

 the "Customs" -The Benin Bronzes The J\Iossi African Agnostics 

 Central Sudanese General Ethical and Social Relations The 

 Sonrhay Domain Origins Egyptian Theories Sonrhay Records 

 The Hausas Dominant Social Position Speech and Mental Qualities- 

 Origins Kanenibii; Kanuri; Baghinni; Afosgu Ethnical and Political 

 Relations in the Chad Basin The Aborigines Islam and Heathendom 

 Slave-Hunting Arboreal Strongholds Mosgu Types and Contrasts The 

 Cultured Peoples of Central Sudan-- Kanem-Bornu Records East 

 Sudanese Range of the Negro in Eastern Sudan The Mabas Ethnical 

 Relations in Waday The Nubas The Nubian Problem Nubian Origins 

 and Affinities The Negro Peoples of the Nile-Congo watersheds 

 Shilluks ; Dinkas; Bongos; Mangbattus; Niam-Niams Two Physical 

 Types Linguistic Groups Mental Qualities Cannibalism The African 

 Cannibal Zone Arts and Industries High Appreciation of Pictorial 

 Art Sense of Humour. 



CONSPECTUS OF SUDANESE NEGROES. 



Primeval Home, Africa south of the Sahara. Distritm- 



Present Range, the Primeval Home less Abyssinia, Past and 

 Ga/ta, Somali and Masai Lands ; Tripolitana, Mauritania Times. 

 and Egypt sporadically ; several of the southern United 

 States ; West Indies ; Guiana ; parts of Brazil and Peru. 



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