20 THe MIGRATIONS OF MAN. 
arrows, he has not entirely vanished off the face of the earth. 
He exists in the Philippines and in the Malay Peninsula as well 
as in the Andamans, and the Tasmanians were also Negrittos. 
The African Negritto has been traced over a large portion of the 
Dark Continent and even into Europe. Near Mentone two skele- 
tons were recently discovered which had a suspicious resemblance 
to him. Some authorities have stated that there is a Negritto 
element in the population of pre-historic and even of modern 
Egypt. The Queen of Punt was certainly a Bushwoman, whilst the 
Pygmies of the Congo, certain people in German East Africa, 
and on Mount Mlanji (British Central Africa), as well as the 
Bushmen of the Kalahari, all belong to the Negritto type.* Now 
if one remembers the suggestion thrown out by the late Sir W. 
Flower, “ He (the Negritto) is thought to be an infantile, unde- 
veloped, or primitive form, from which the African Negroes on 
the one hand and the Melanesian on the other, with all their 
modifications, have sprung,’’ then this wide, scattered distri- 
bution is exactly what one would expect. Although later autho- 
rities have criticised this suggestion and added much recent 
observation which tends to hopelessly confuse the question, still 
it does afford an excellent working plan, and will probably be 
maintained until some other courageous anthropologist offers as 
good and definite an explanation. Tf 
In Africa the main highways are particularly well marked. 
The North African Coast Road by Tunis and Algeria belongs, of 
course, to Europe, and will have to be mentioned later on. 
Now if we blot out the Sahara, Somaliland, and Congo forests 
(of the Pygmies), the Gaboon forests (of Gorillas and Chim- 
panzees), the Kalahari and Namaqualand deserts (of Bushmen), 
then two main highways stand out clearly. Both. run together, 
descending the Nile Valley as far as Khartoum, and then they 
separate. The Niger route runs west, avoiding the Congo 
jungles on the south and the Sahara to the north, it passes over 
what is (or was) good fertile land into Northern Nigeria, where 
some 35,000,000 of people are said to exist to-day. The least 
* Haddon Report to British Association, 1904; seems to doubt the 
affinity of Bushmen and Pygmies, but other articles in the same volume 
uphold the view adopted here. 
+ Meyer Negrittos. 
