3 86 SCIENCE PROGRESS. 



the Lebo or Tahennu and the Amorites (both probably 

 enough of North- European origin, though domiciled in 

 Lybia and Canaan), but some of the Arabian Shashi are 

 represented as of xanthous complexion. Yet now-a-days 

 we hear nothing of blonds in the Arabian or Egyptian 

 populations, except where recent admixture of blood may 

 be suspected. Again, Flinders Petrie's recent discovery 

 of the remains of a tall, brown-haired, and apparently 

 "Aryan" population in Middle Egypt, 1 that seems to have 

 completely and speedily disappeared, reminds us of the 

 generally accepted statement that the Mamelukes have no 

 representatives in the Egyptian population at the present 

 day. On the other hand the alleged blond coloration of 

 the Guanches in the Canary Islands, and the known fre- 

 quency of that complexion in the people of the Riff, and in 

 the Kabyles of some mountainous regions further east, 

 make it probable that the type of the Tahennu still exists 

 where climatic conditions are not unfavourable to it. And 

 after all, these Tahennu may have been only a blond 

 military aristocracy ruling a melanochroic plebs ; had it 

 been otherwise, allowing that they had come from the 

 north, why did they not perpetuate an Aryan language in 

 North Africa ? 



Again, the large xanthous element in the Jews has been 

 accounted for by the existence of an ancient Amorite cross ; 

 and on the whole this appears to me the most probable 

 explanation. We can hardly doubt its antiquity in any 

 case, since it is present in every section of the Jewish 

 people, and is very distinct among the Sephardim of the 

 Levant, though perhaps larger in proportion among the 

 Ashkenazim, 2 whose Gentile neighbours are so largely 

 blond. In some parts of the Levant, indeed, among the 

 dark Turks and Armenians, a red beard raises a suspicion 

 of Hebrew ancestry. 



On the whole this kind of evidence, of which much 



1 " Indications of the earliest English occupation of Egypt," as 

 De Lapouge pointedly remarked. 



2 Jacobs and Spielmann, Anthrop. Trans. Beddoe, Ethn. Trans. 



