194 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Mongolian invasion may not be impossible ethnically," and the 

 affinity of the language with the Chinese — small adjunct, however, 

 as it may prove to be — may strengthen this assumption.! 



Yet the predynastic Egyptian is not a San, in spite of certain 

 similarity in culture. He is supposed to have belonged to a white 

 or light-skinned race with black hair.| 



Von Luschan is of the opinion that the Hottentot is a cross between a 

 Hamitic race and the Bushman. " Hottentots have by intermarriage 

 with Bushmen lost a good deal of the high stature and of the great 

 cubic capacity of the skull common to all other Hamitic tribes, and 

 they have acquired in the same way their spiral-curled hair and 

 their steatopygia. , . . Hottentots ai^e herdsmen to our days just 

 as they and all their Hamitic brothers have been for many years." 



This opinion presupposes that the Bushman was the autoch- 

 thonous race of the pai't of Africa where the Hamite came into 

 contact with him.§ But where were then the Negro or Bantu- 

 speaking races, which, some will have it, have originated in the 

 region of the great African lakes, and are there still. Whence were 

 acquired the negroid characters of the Bush people, coupled with 

 their strongly Mongolian type of face ? 



But if the commingling of two races is the origin of the Hottentot, 

 then the Bushman race has been the one that imparted to the other 

 most of its physical characters, because late researches point to the 

 fact that physical differences do not exist, or are unimportant in the 

 so-called Bush or Hottentot survivors. 



On the other hand, there was another section of the San, the 

 Strand Looper, of whom it is true very little is known hitherto. 

 But physically this section differs a great deal from the Hottentot 

 and Bush people, and it is not improbable that eventixally the 

 Strand Loopers, who occupied the rock-shelters of the littoral in the 

 George, Knysna, and Humansdorp Districts of the Cape Colony, 

 will be accepted as, if not the original autochthonous race of South 

 Africa or Africa, at least one that made and used palaeoliths, but 



* According to De Quatrefages the horizontal cephalic index of the San is almost 

 exactly the same as that of the Southern Chinese. For the San the index is 77' 45. and 

 for the Chinese 77'22. Among the Khoi-Khom or the Hottentots the index is lower. 



t The aborigines of the inland district were called " Chinese Hottentots " by the 

 early colonists. 



\ The hair found on predynastic bodies is fair, but Virchow declares that this 

 light colour is due to the action of the soil ; this conclusion is now generally 

 accepted. 



§ E. Biasutti, in his attempt at determining the origin of the ancient Egyptians, 

 finds, in addition to three others, a type characterised by what he terms a norma 

 vertkalis beloides. These skulls are mostly mesaticephalic. This type, to which 



