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The teeth are much worn in both the cave-dwellers and recent 

 Bushmen, but the former show no signs of the crowding of the jaw 

 or of the dental irregularities, which are a marked feature of the 

 specimens from the Kalahari. This may be evidence of some degree 

 of impurity in the latter stock, the larger teeth of the negro appearing 

 without a proportionate enlargement of the jaw ; but against this 

 should be set the reduced cranial capacity of many individuals and 

 the predominant Bush features. The stature of the Kalahari speci- 

 mens shows a wide range of variation, 4 ft. 10 in. to 5 ft. 6 in. 

 The cave-dwellers varied from 4 ft. 9 in. to 5 ft. 2 in., being thus a 

 little taller than the majority of the up-country Cape Bushmen ; 

 though, excepting for the possibly legendary Kattea, the northern 

 colonial Bushman was always described as taller than the coastal 

 tribes. 



The evidence points to the Strandloopers being the most primitive 

 race of South Africa, and, as the earliest specimens are the least 

 negroid, it is possible that further researches may show adequate 

 distinctions from the Bushmen. 



Thei'e are no definite resemblances between the Strandloopers and 

 the negroid type described by Verneau from the Grimaldi caves, the 

 crania of which are longer, narrower, higher, with wider zygomatic 

 arches and a quite different outline. 



A few Egyptian crania in outline somewhat resemble Bushmen, 

 and in dimensions, as previously shown in Vol. V., resemble Hotten- 

 tots, but there is no sufficient evidence as yet to establish a connec- 

 tion. More data are needed as to the cranial foi'm and dimensions 

 of the early Hamites before the theory of origin of the Hottentots 

 can be adequately tested, and the materials as yet are lacking. Much 

 is to be hoped for from the search for the early Cavemen now going 

 on, provided the stratigraphical and geological evidence of antiquity 

 can be established. 



