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ANTHROPOLOGY 



down to within a couple of 

 hundred miles of Khar- 

 tum, and from the western 

 slopes of the Abyssinian 

 Plateau across the Bahr- 

 al-Ghazal to Wadelai and 

 Lake Chad. The type 

 may even extend through 

 Hausaland towards Sene- 

 gambia.* Here and there, 

 of course, there has been 

 intermixture, ancient or 

 recent, with Hamites, and 

 consequently the result 

 may be an improvement 

 in physical beauty ; or 

 there has been mingling 

 with the Pygmy-Progna- 

 thous, or the West African, 

 Negro, or the Bantu. 

 From these crosses arise 

 tribes like the Nyam- 

 Nyam, theLendu, and the 

 Madi. This Nilotic Negro 

 type penetrates south- 

 eastwards into the Uganda 

 Protectorate, and has left 

 an isolated colony in the 

 countries round Kavirondo 

 Bay. 



The fourth of these 

 racial divisions is the Masai, a section which stands very much apart from 

 other Negro races. Perhaps on the whole its physical appearance may be 

 explained by an ancient intermixture between the Hamite and Negro, 

 followed by a period of isolation which caused the Masai to develop special 

 features of their own. Pelated to the Masai are the Suk-Turkana— the 

 tall, almost gigantic tribes that dwell between Lake Baringo and the 

 north-west of Lake Rudolf — and the Nandi-Lumbwa, with their offshoot, the 

 somewhat mongrel tribe of Andorobo. 



The fifth and last amongst these main stocks is the Hamitic, which 



* Many of the Hausa and of the Kanuri (Bornu) are .strikingly like the Nile Negroes 

 in appearance. 



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