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ANTTTEOPOLOGY 



down to within a couple of 

 Imndred miles of Khar- 

 tum, and from the western 

 slopes of the Abyssinian 

 TMateau across the Bahr- 

 al-Gliazal to ^^'adelai and 

 J^ake Chad. The type 

 may even extend through 

 Hausaland towards !>ene- 

 gambia/' Here and there, 

 of course, there has been 

 intermixture, ancient or 

 recent, witli Hamites, and 

 consequently the result 

 may be an improvement 

 in physical lieauty ; or 

 tliere has been mingling 

 with the Pygmy-Progna- 

 thous, or the West African, 

 Negro, or the Bantu. 

 From these crosses arise 

 trilies like the Xyam- 

 Xyam, theLendu, and the 

 -Aladi. This Nilotic Xegro 

 type penetrates south- 

 eastwards into the Uganda 

 Protectorate, and has left 

 an isolated colony in the 

 countries round Kavirondo 

 Bay. 



The fourth of these 

 racial divisions is the Alasai, a section which stands very much apart from 

 other Negro races. Perha2)S on the whole its physical appearance may be 

 explained by an ancient intermixture between the Hamite and Negro, 

 followed by a period of isolation which caused the Masai to develop special 

 features of their own. Pelated to the 3Iasai are the Sfik-Turkana — the 

 tall, almost gigantic tribes that dwell between Lake Baringo and the 

 north-west of Lake Kudolf — and the Nandi-Lumbwa, with their oiishoot, the 

 somewhat mongrel tribe of Andorobo. 



The tifth and last amongst these main stocks is the Hamitic, which 



* -Many of the Hausa and of the Kaiiuri (Boniu) are .strikingly like the Nile Negroes 

 in aiipearance. 



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