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MAS.Vr, TURK AN A. SIK, NANDT, ETC. 



forests of Kijuatorial Africa Nvliicli in those days strctclicd from the western 

 slopes of the Naiidi Kscar[)ineiit right across the Congo basin to the 

 Atlantic Ocean. The J^)ushnien— like the Pygmies in Eastern Africa — were 

 exterminated with something a})proaching completeness by the Hamitic 

 in\aders of North-Kast Africa, tliongh traces of them still exist in the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Stephanie (the Doko peo[ile). But between 

 Galaland on the north and Cape Colony on the south we have some 



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evidence of their absorption by the Nilotic and Bantu Negroes in the 

 reversions to their type wliicli occur among all the East African peoples. 

 The Hottentots were no doubt tlie result of a fusion between the 

 Bushmen-Pygmies and a superior Negro race somewhere in East Africa. 

 They, too, w(M-e forced to Hee before the imi)act of stronger tribes, but 

 when they followed on the heels of their Bushmen ])redecessors they 

 brought with them the ox and slieep as domestic animals, and some 

 traces (?) of linguistic affinity witli the Hamitic group of languages. 



