320 ABORIGINES OF EASTERN TROVINC'E. 



our colleftion that can be referred with certainty to recent 

 Kaffirs, but resembles some of them in facial characters. 

 It is possibly a Kaffir-Hottentot-l^ush hybrid, the non-Bush 

 elements predominant. 



Another specimen from the sand-hills at Kleinemonde, 

 consisting- of brain case only, is still lonoer, 204 mm. It is, 

 however, narrow as well as long, and lias no parietal eminences, 

 nor is there a well-marked occipital protuberance. 



In addition to these large- and long-headed strandloopers, 

 the Albany Museum has one specimen from the sand-hills. Port 

 Alfred, which seems typically strandlooper so far as can be 

 judged from the size and shape of the cranium, its face and 

 mandible being lacking. Moreover, this specimen is note- 

 worthy in possessing a fronto-sqUamous suture on both sides. 

 Yet amongst a few complete Hottentot or Bush skulls from 

 the same locality, not one agrees wholly with the western 

 strandlooper type. A skeleton from Port Alfred (exhibited 

 as that of a lUishwonian) is distinctly prognathous (103"2), 

 the teeth large and crowded, eye-sockets comparatively 

 rounded, and the lower margin of the nasal aperture well 

 rounded off. Another female specimen, from the Port Alfred 

 golf links, though not so prognathous (lOO), has the ascending 

 ramus of tlie mandible rather high and the sigmoid notch 

 deep. 



A strandlooper skull. from East London, unearthed during 

 excavations made in the construction of a patent slip in 1896, 

 is tapeinocephalic and chamaecephalic, but very prognathous 

 (104), and the nose is not compressed, though the aperture is 

 fairly broad. This specimen is interesting in possessing a 

 perfect suture across the riglit malar bone, as also found in 

 Bushmen by Prof. Rolleston. The sigmoid curve of the 

 mandible is comparatively shallow, and the coronary process 

 low, but the condyloid process is high. The mastoids are 

 small, and the skull rests beliind only on the cerebellar part 

 of the occipital. 



Amongst the various eastern strandlooper skulls in the 

 Albany Museum, the one which conforms best to the western 

 strandlooper type came from Port Elizabeth, being unearthed 

 during Harbour Board excavations. This is chamaecephalic 

 and almost orthognathous, the index being about 98. Yet tlie 

 mastoids are relatively well developed, and the skull rests 

 behind on these and the cerebellar part of the occipital ; it 

 is, moreover, tapeinocephalic (88). 



Knowing al)solutely nothing concerning the antiquity of 

 any of these specimens, the available data is much too small 

 to warrant a connected account of the eastern strandloopers. 

 Whether the short-headed orthognathous men of tlie Western 

 Province ever lived here we do not know. 



The evidence of the skulls seems to harmonise Avith that 

 of history in witnessing to the former occurreiice along our 

 coast- of bastard tribes containing Bush, Hottentot and Kafhr 

 elements, the skulls examined constituting a verv hetero- 



