IV.] THE AFRICAN NEGRO: II. 121 



to provide the surrounding tribes with game and palm-wine in 

 exchange for manioc, maize, and bananas 1 . 



Despite the above-mentioned deviations, occurring chiefly 

 about the borderlands, considerable uniformity both of physical 

 and mental characters is found to prevail amongst the typical 

 Negrito groups scattered in small hunting communities all over 

 the Welle, Semliki, Congo, and Ogowai woodlands. These groups 

 must therefore be regarded as the fragments of a homogeneous 

 dwarfish race, who have an authentic historical record going back 

 to the early Egyptian dynasties, and still persist in a great part 

 of inter-tropical Africa. 



THE BUSHMEN AND HOTTENTOTS. 



Towards the south the Negrito domain was formerly conter- 

 minous with that of the Bushmen, of whom traces 

 were discovered by Sir H. H. Johnston 2 as far north an d U Hotten- 

 as Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika, and who, it is tots - Former 



and Present 



reasonable to suppose, belong to the same primitive Range, 

 stock. The differences mental and physical now 

 separating the two sections of the family may easily be explained 

 by the different environments hot, moist and densely wooded in 

 the north, and open steppes in the south. 



But evidence has now been produced of the presence of a 

 belated Hottentot or Hottentot-Bushman group 



rpt_ ^ 



as far north as the Kwa-Kokue district, between Wasan d aw i. 

 Kilimanjaro and Lake Victoria. The Wasandawi 

 people here visited by Herr Oskar Neumann are not Bantus, and 

 speak a language radically distinct from that of the neighbouring 



1 //// Innern Afrika's, p. 259 sq. As stated in Eth. p. -248, Dr Wolf 

 connects all these Negrito peoples with the Bushmen south of the Zambesi, 

 and I really think this generalisation may now be accepted. 



- "It would seem as if the earliest known race of man inhabiting what is 

 now British Central Africa was akin to the Bushman-Hottentot type of Negro. 

 Rounded stones with a hole through the centre, similar to those which are 

 used by the Bushmen in the south for weighting their digging-sticks, have 

 been found at the south end of Lake Tanganyika. I have heard that other 

 examples of these ' Bushman ' stones have been found nearer to Lake Nyasa, 

 &c." (Op. cit. p. 52.) 



