Liberia <^ 



found living or dead or represented by its special stone im- 

 plements in any part of West Africa west of the Niger Delta. 

 Stone implements have been found in abundance in the soil 



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of the Gold Coast regions, and no doubt will be found yet in 

 Liberia and many other parts of Guinea ; but 1 believe that 



off from the main stock in the same way as the South African Bushman. They 

 are rather arrested, infantile, or degenerate groups of the Nilotic or Bantu Negroes 

 produced by the depressing conditions of the dense forest. The author of this 

 book believes them in the main to be the dwindled descendants of the earliest 

 pioneers of the true Negro stock (as compared with the divergent Bushmen). Their 

 most typical physical feature is the large, broad, flattened nose, with prominent 

 alee. 



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