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PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



spoken 

 clicks— 

 •ancient 



daman and Philippine Archi- 

 pelagoes, or amongst the 

 Esquimaux. 



I am not even inclined, now, 

 to advocate the theory that the 

 Congo Pygmies of Equatorial 

 Africa are necessarily connected 

 in origin with the South African 

 Bushman. Some B ashmen tribes 

 in South-West Africa, where 

 better food conditions prevail, 

 are scarcely Dwarfs. The Bush- 

 men and Hottentots are obviously 

 closely inter-related in physical 

 structure ; but I can see no 

 physical features (other than 

 dwarfishness) which are obviously 

 peculiar to both Bushmen and 

 Congo Pygmies. On the con- 

 trary, in the large and often 

 protuberant eyes, the broad flat 

 nose with its exaggerated aloe, 

 the long upper lip and but slight 

 degree of eversion of the inner 

 mucous surface of the lips, the 

 abundant hair on head and body, 

 relative absence of wrinkles, of 

 steatopygy, and of high, pro- 

 truding cheek-bones, the Congo 

 Dwarf differs markedly from the 

 Hottentot-Bushman type. It is 

 true that some of the Congo 

 Pygmies intercalate their speech 

 with faucal gasps in place of 

 guttural consonants, but this 

 defect in pronunciation need 

 not necessarily contain any re- 

 miniscence of the Bushman 

 click. There is one language 

 in Eastern Equatorial Africa (in the German sphere) which has 

 •the Sandawi. But this, though it may be a relic of extremely 

 days, when the ancestors of the Hottentots were dwelling 



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