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Middle Africa exhibits a new type of humanity in 

 the NEGRO, with his dark skin, woolly hair, pro- 

 jecting jaws, and thick lips. As a rule, the skull 

 of the Negro is remarkably long ; it rarely 

 approaches the broad type, and never exhibits the 

 roundness of the Mongolian. A cultivator of the 

 ground, and dwelling in villages; a maker of 

 pottery, and a worker in the useful as well as the 

 ornamental metals ; employing the bow and 

 arrow as well as the spear, the typical negro stands 

 high in point of civilization above the Australian. 



Resembling the Negroes in cranial characters, 

 the BUSHMEN of South Africa differ from them in 

 their yellowish brown skins, their tufted hair, their 

 remarkably small stature, and their tendency to 

 fatty and other integumentary outgrowths ; nor is 

 the wonderful click with which their speech is in- 

 terspersed to be overlooked in enumerating the 

 physical characteristics of this strange people. 



The so-called " Dravidian " populations of 

 Southern Hindostan lead us back, physically as 

 well as geographically, towards the Australians ; l 



[' Of the affinities of these stocks I think there can be no 

 doubt. I was formerly inclined to believe that the ancient 

 Egyptian was the highest term in an ascending series : Australian 

 Dravidian Egyptian of allied stocks. And I believe still that 

 there is a good deal to be said for that hypothesis. One of the 

 most interesting problems at present is the relation of the prse- 

 semitic population of Babylonia to the Dravidians, on the one 

 hand, and the Old Fgyptian on the other. Only one point 

 appears to me to be quite clear, if the statues of Tell Lon re- 

 present these people ; that there is not a trace of Mongolian 

 affinity about them. 1894. J 



