IV.] THE AFRICAN NEGRO : II. 83 



Present Range. Bantu : S. Africa from the Sudanese 

 frontier to the Cape ; Negrito : West Equatorial and Congo 

 forest zones; Bush. -Hot. : Namaqualands ; Kalahari; 

 Lake Ngami and Orange basins. 



Hair. Bantu : same as Sudanese, but often rather Physical 



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longer ; Negrito: snort, frizzly or crisp, rusty brown ; ters. 

 Bush. -Hot.: much the same as Sudanese, but tufty, simu- 

 lating bald partings. Colour. Bantu : all shades of 

 dark brown, sometimes almost black ; Negrito and Bush.- 

 Hot. : yellowish brown. Skull. Bantu : generally dolicho, 

 but variable ; Negrito : almost uniformly brachy ; Bush.- 

 Hot. : dolicho. Jaws. Bantu : moderately prognathous 

 and even orthognathous ; Negrito and Bush. -Hot. : highly 

 prognathous. Cheek-bones. Bantu : moderately or not 

 at all prominent ; Negrito and Bush. -Hot. : very pro- 

 minent, often extremely so, forming a triangular face with 

 apex at chin. Nose. Bantu : variable, ranging from 

 platyrrhine to leptorrhine (index, 56 to 46); Negrito and 

 Bush. -Hot.: short, broad at base, depressed at root, always 

 platyrrhine. Eyes, Bantu : generally large, black, and 

 prominent, but also of regular Hamitic type ; Negrito and 

 Bush. -Hot. : rather small, deep brown and black. Stature. 

 Bantu: tall, from $ft. 8 in. to 6ft.; Negrito: always 

 much under $ft., mean about 4//. / Bushman: short, with 

 rather wide range, from ^ft. 8 in. to 5 ft. 2 in.; Hot.: 

 undersized, mean ^ft. 5 in. 



Temperament. Bantu : mainly like the Negroid Mental 



Charac- 



Sudanese,far more intelligent than the true Negro, equally ters. 

 cruel, but less fitful and more trustworthy ; Negrito: bright, 

 active and quick-witted, but vindictive and treacherous, 

 apparently not cruel to each other, but rather gentle and 

 kindly; Bushman: in all these respects very like the 

 Negrito, but more intelligent ; Hot. : rather dull and 

 sluggish, but the full-blood (Nama} much less so than the 

 half-caste (Griqua) tribes. 







Speech. Bantu : as absolutely uniform as the physical 

 type is variable, one stock language only, of the agglutinating 

 order, with both class prefixes, alliteration and postfixes ; 



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