320 THE HISTORY OF CREATION, 
brown. The hair of their heads, as in Mediterranese, is 
more or less curled, neither quite smooth, like that of the 
Euthycomi, nor actually woolly, like that of the Ulotrichi. 
The strong development of the beard is also like that of the 
Mediterranese. The oval form of face seems partly to be akin 
to that of the Malays, partly to that of the Mediterranese. 
Their forehead is generally high, their nose prominent and 
narrow, their lips slightly protruding. Their language is 
now very much mixed with Indo-Germanic elements, but 
seems to have been originally derived from a very peculiar 
primzeval language. | 
The Nubian (Homo Nuba) has caused ethnographers no 
fewer difficulties than the Dravida species. By this name 
we understand not merely the real Nubians (Schangallas, or 
Dongolese), but also their near kinsmen, the Fulas, or 
Fellatas. The real Nubians inhabit the countries of the 
Upper Nile (Dongola, Schangalla, Barabra, Cordofan) ; the 
Fulas, or Fellatas, on the other hand, have thence migrated 
far westward, and now inhabit a broad tract in the south of 
the western Sahara, hemmed in between the Soudanians in 
the north and the Nigritos in the south. The Nubian and 
Fula races are generally either classed with negroes or with 
the Hamitic races (thus with Mediterranese), but are so 
essentially different from both that they must be regarded 
as a distinct species. In former times they very probably 
occupied a large part of north-eastern Africa. The skin of 
the Nubian and Fula races is of a yellowish or reddish 
brown colour, more rarely dark brown or approaching to 
black. Their hair is not woolly but curled, frequently even 
quite smooth; its colour is dark brown or black. Their 
beard is much more strongly developed than in negroes. 
