-* Anthropology : ' Historical 



such a distinctive Bushman implement as the perforated stone 

 used as a weight tor the digging-stick, or any other stone 

 implement or weapon connected with the Bushman races of 

 South or K.ist Africa has not yet been found in the west. At any 

 day, however, a discovery may he made which will nullify this 

 statement. Our knowledge of tropical Africa is so scanty that 





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no wise man would make rash declarations at the present time 

 in denying the past or present existence of this or that type 

 in such and such a country. 



In parts of Nyasaland I have seen cropping out amongst 

 the Bantu tribes many a type of face strikingly like the 

 Hottentot or the Bushman, and the same thing has occurred 



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