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MASAI, TURKANA, STJK, NANDI, ETC. 



forests of Equatorial Africa which in those days stretched from the western 

 slopes of the Nandi Escarpment right across the Congo basin to the 

 Atlantic Ocean. The Bushmen — like the Pygmies in Eastern Africa — were 

 exterminated with something approaching completeness by the Hamitic 

 invaders of North-East Africa, though traces of them still exist in the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Stephanie (the Doko people). But between 

 Galaland on the north and Cape Colony on the south we have some 



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evidence of their absorption by the Nilotic and Bantu Negroes in the 

 reversions to their type which occur among all the East African peoples. 

 The Hottentots were no doubt the result of a fusion between the 

 Bushmen-Pygmies and a superior Negro race somewhere in East Africa. 

 They, too, were forced to flee before the impact of stronger tribes, but 

 when they followed on the heeds of their Bushmen predecessors they 

 brought with them the ox and sheep as domestic animals, and some 

 traces (?) of linguistic affinity with the Hamitic group of languages. 



