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NILOTIC NEGROES 



mino-led much with the Bantu on the south or the Hamites on the north 

 have uo-ly features as compared with such statuesque negroes as the better 

 class of Kavirondo, Zulu, or kindred Bantu races. Though the figure, 

 however, may be ugly from a sculptors point of view (it being sometimes 

 long and lackadaisical, at others square-shouldered and thin-legged), the 

 men are powerfully built, and belong to a virile race. Where, as in 



405. A BABI NEGRO, GONDOKORO, WHITE NILE 



the south of their domain, they have mingled with the Bantu, the Masai, 

 or Hamite, they become (in the male sex) a handsome people corporeally, 

 the good looks even extending sometimes to the lineaments of the face. 

 The colour of the skin is generally very dark : perhaps the blackest of 

 negroes are found in this Nilotic group, which really stretches westwards 

 ■across the Sudan far beyond the limits of the Nile basin. The hands and 

 feet are usually small. The arms are long, especially in the forearm. 



