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NILOTIC NEGROES 



uiiiigle;! mucli with tlie Bantu on the south or the Hamites on the north 

 have ugly features as eoni})are(l with such statuesque negroes as the better 

 <'lass of Kavirondo, /uhi, or kindred Bantu races. Though the figure, 

 howe\er, may be ugly from a sculptor's point of view (it being sometimes 

 long and lackadaisical, at others square-shouldered and thin-legged), the 

 men are powerfully built, and belong to a virile race. Where, as in 



405. A BAEI NEGRO, GOXDOKOKO, WHITE NILE 



the south of their domain, they have mingled with the Bantu, the ^Nfasai, 

 or Hamite, they become (in the male sex) a handsome people corporeally, 

 the good looks even extending sometimes to the lineaments of the face. 

 The colour of the skin is generally very dark : perhaps the blackest of 

 negroes are found in this Nilotic group, which really stretches westwards 

 across the Sudan far beyond the limits of the Nile basin. The hands and 

 feet are usually small, llie arms are long, especially in the forearm. 



