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THE MIGRATIONS OF MAN. 
All these African main roads point either to the Isthmus of 
Suez or to the Red Sea. But the story of the peopling of Europe 
is the most fascinating of all. Of River Driftman, we have but 
a couple of teeth, which is an insufficient basis for any generalisa- 
tion, but of the Canstadt or Neanderthal man, there are a certain 
number of skulls which have been considered a sufficiently strong 
foundation for the deduction that his descendants are still with 
us. Robert the Bruce, a certain Archbishop of Tours, Kay 
Lykke the Dane, a distinguished lunacy doctor in Paris, show, it 
is said, an affinity to this vigorous savage.* 
We have also alluded to the Negritto man of Mentone, and 
one would expect Negrittos in the Meriterranean, but the most 
interesting of these prehistoric Europeans is the tall, long- 
headed, athletic savage who lived in the valleys of the Vézére 
and Dordogne in early neolithic times. 
We know how he lived and hunted; we even know a little 
of his religion and beliefs. | Most unfortunately, not a single 
lock of hair has been discovered in the repositories of any 
deceased Cromagnonite. If we assume that he had red or 
yellow hair and blue or green eyes, it is possible to produce a 
fairly satisfactory theory as to the balance of power in Europe at 
the first invasion of the Aryans (see page 23). The Cromag- 
nonites had probably diffused throughout Europe and Africa 
north of the Sahara. They lived as small hunting clans; they 
had not even advanced as far in civilisation as the Apache and 
Red Indians of the Prairies; they may have domesticated the 
small, long-haired, long-toothed, and probably savage horse of 
the period ; but they probably neither rode nor drove that animai. 
A small, rather feeble race, the men of Furfooz seem to have 
entered Europe (Belgium) from the East at a very early period. 
These were the first round or broad-headed men: they had 
probably tamed the reindeer, and are supposed to be the 
ancestors of the Lapps. 
It is in the highest degree improbable that a Cromagnonite 
would be dispossessed of his land by any sort of Lapp, unless 
the latter were in great numbers and possessed of much better 
weapons. As this last is unlikely, the Lapps were probably 
squeezed out to the North—that is, to the Baltic and beyond 
it; indeed, towards where they live to-day. 
* Quatrefages The Human Species, and Keane 7. 
