THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE 



CHAPTER XIII 

 ANTHE OP OLD a Y 



A LL the researches made into the natural history of the hniiiau race 

 ul\- practically result in our agreeing to recognise three main types, 

 which here and there haye interbred and produced hybrid peojjles 

 difficult to classify. These types are the yellow -shinned JNIongolian, with 

 narrow eyes, high cheek-bones, narrow, flattened nose, a tendency to paucity 

 of hair ou the face and body and, on the contrary, to long and coarse hair on 

 tlie head (Mongolians, Chinese, Malays, Polynesians, and American Indians); 

 a brown or white Caucasian type, with a distinct tendency to be hairy 

 about the face and body, with head-hair long though inclined to be curly 

 ;ind usually fine of texture, of handsome features, full eyes, straight well- 

 deyeloped nose ; and the Negro type, never lighter in colour than dark 

 yellow, and strongly inclining to be black, with flat, bridgeless, wide- 

 winged nose, high cheek-bones, poor chin, and, aboye all, with head- and 

 body-hair closely curled, woolly, and differing in this particular sharply from 

 the Caucasian and ^longolian races of men.* 



The Negro race certainly originated in Southern Asia, i)Ossibly in India, 

 not far from the yery centre where man himself emerged in some foiin 

 similar to the Plthecaiiihropos erectus from a brancli of the anthropoid 

 apes. Perhaps on tlie whole the Negro retains more simian characteristics 

 than any otlier existing type of humanity. On (he other hand, some of 

 his peculiarities depart from the simian, and would indicate a line t)f 

 deyelopment on his o\yn account, possibly somewliat on the down-grade. 

 As regards hairiness of body, the European and Asiatic races belonging to 

 the Caucasian type come much nearer to the anthropoid apes than does 

 the Negro, though all Negroes perhaps exhibit more body-hair in a 

 natural state than is usually supposed to be the case, it being a widespread 

 custom throughout most Negro tribes (except the most degraded) to remoye 

 In' artificial means the liair on face and body. The crimpeil or woolly 



* There are anatomical details in wliicli the Negro apiiioxiinates more to the 

 white race than to the ^Mongolian. 



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