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rican whites of Dutch and Enghsh derivation, who are blending 

 together and producing a type of their own (as is also happening 

 on a larger scale in Australia) ; and there are abundant remains of 

 " paleolithic " cultures. Of equal interest are the great finds of the 



Fig. '/J. — Mr. Zwigelaar, the miner who witli his 

 " boy " discovered the Rhodesian skull, with the 

 specimen shortly after the tind was made. (Photo- 

 graph loaned Dr. Hrdlicka by Mr. Zwigelaar.) 



Broken Hill mine, Northern Rhodesia, 2,015 miles north of Cape 

 Town, and of the Buxton quarry, 1,000 miles further southward. 



The discovery in 1921 at Broken Hill in Southern Rhodesia of 

 the skull of the so-called " Rhodesian Man " was an event of much 

 scientific importance. The find, moreover, is still enigmatic. The 

 skull shows a man so primitive in many of its features that nothing 

 like it has been seen before. The visit to the Broken Hill mine in 

 which the skull was discovered proved a good demonstration of the 



