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the thick and massive cranium, narrow convex forehead, and 

 compressed lateral parietes of the skull, the projecting jaw 

 and oblique contour of the visage, they partially lose the 

 thick lips, flat nose, large protuberant eyes, high facial bones, 

 and other facial peculiarities of the Krooman — the most 

 perfect type of the Negro — and thus gradually approximate 

 towards a superior grade of the human family. The nose 

 is frequently short and small, the nostrils but slightly ex- 

 panded, and occasionally of an aquiline or European outline. 

 The mouth is tolerably large, but the lips are thin, though 

 inclined to fulness. The hair is short, crisp, and woolly, 

 and presents no change from that of the African. The 

 colour of the skin and complexion is of a dark brown, be- 

 tween the pale yellow hue of the Eboes and the jet black 

 of the natives of Dungarah and Qua. It is smooth, shin- 

 ing, and, in the younger sexes, of a soft velvety texture, 

 and also less unctuous ; while, among the chiefs and higher 

 ranks, from the constant cleansing of the body, its func- 

 tions are maintained in the most efficient order. The adi- 

 pose depositions in the female become gradually absorbed 

 as she advances in life, leaving the long pendent breasts, 

 and wrinkled and flaccid cutaneous integument, so charac- 

 teristic of all the older Africans. It has been matter of ob- 

 servation, during my residence of some years among the na- 

 tives of this and the other rivers, that the skin of youth 

 is of a much lighter colour, especially in the female, than 

 that of more mature age, and that the majority appear to 

 be of a spare habit and of a delicate and debilitated frame. 

 The facial aspect is also somewhat more elongated. In 

 both sexes, but particularly in the women, the curved de- 

 pression of the lumbar region is very conspicuous, and the 

 thoracic regions, with the sacrum, and its muscular appen- 

 dages, are proportionably prominent. The pelvis is much more 

 expanded than in the European, but not so fully developed. 

 The lower limbs seem short and stunted, from the great 

 mass of flesh with which they are clothed, while the foot is 

 large and flat, with the calves of the legs more elevated 

 than in the European. The upper limbs of the Negi'o, ac- 

 cording to the statements of some writers, are of greater 



