THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE 



CHAPTER XIII 

 ANTHROPOLOGY 



\ LL the researches made into the natural history of the human race 

 _ilA. practically result in our agreeing to recognise three main types, 

 which here and there have interbred and produced hybrid peoples 

 difficult to classify. These types are the yellow -skinned Mongolian, with 

 narrow eyes, high cheek-bones, narrow, flattened nose, a tendency to paucity 

 of hair on the face and body and, on the contrary, to long and coarse hair on 

 the head (Mongolians, Chinese, Malays, Polynesians, and American Indians); 

 a brown or white Caucasian type, with a distinct tendency to be hairy 

 about the face and body, with head-hair long though inclined to be curly 

 and usually fine of texture, of handsome features, full eyes, straight well- 

 developed nose ; and the Negro type, never lighter in colour than dark 

 yellow, and strongly inclining to be black, with flat, bridgeless, wide- 

 winged nose, high cheek-bones, poor chin, and, above all, with head- and 

 body-hair closely curled, woolly, and differing in this particular sharply from 

 the Caucasian and Mongolian races of men.* 



The Negro race certainly originated in Southern Asia, possiblv in India, 

 not far from the very centre where man himself emerged in some form 

 similar to the Pithecanthropos erectus from a branch of the anthropoid 

 apes. Perhaps on the whole the Negro retains more simian characteristics 

 than any other existing type of humanity. On the other hand, some of 

 his peculiarities depart from the simian, and would indicate a line of 

 development on his own account, possibly somewhat on the down-grade 

 As regards hairiness of body, the European and Asiatic races belonging to 

 the Caucasian type come much nearer to the anthropoid apes than does 

 the Negro, though all Negroes perhaps exhibit more body-hair in a 

 natural state than is usually supposed to be the case, it being a widespread 

 custom throughout most Negro tribes (except the most degraded) to remove 

 by artificial means the hair on face and body. The crimped or woolly 



* There are anatomical details in which the Negro approximates more to the 

 white race than to the Mongolian. 



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