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Between the typical Bantus and the type 

 Aboriginal (Negrillo or Bushmen) who inhabit 

 Angola, there are of course much greater differ- 

 ences than those observed between the natives 

 of the uplands and coast. The type Bantu, 

 influenced by his Hamitic strain, is taller and 

 darker, with finer features, larger eyes, and less 

 prominent cheek-bones than the Aboriginal, whose 

 short and somewhat ungainly figure, yellow brown 

 colour, very flat nose, small deep-set eyes, and 

 prominent cheek-bones, place him at a consider- 

 able physical disadvantage to the Bantu. 



These marked physical differences between the 

 two peoples are accompanied by differences in 

 speech and religious beliefs. The speech of the 

 Bushman is as primitive as that of the Bantu is 

 perfected, but there is little to choose between the 

 religious beliefs of the two races, and in fact the 

 ancestor- and nature-worship of the primitive 

 peoples seems a purer cult than the spirit-worship 

 influenced by magic and witch doctors of the 

 Bantu peoples, which is not dissimilar to the 

 Shamanism of the East. 



In my journey in Angola there was no oppor- 

 tunity to study the beliefs of the primitive peoples, 

 and this western Bantu spirit-worship was practi- 

 cally the only cult met with. 



There was no trace of that ancient belief, with 

 its mythology of sixteen divinities, similar to and 

 possibly derived from that of Tyre and Etruria, 

 which exists according to Frobcnius in Nigerian 

 Yorubaland, nor of that earliest Christian teach- 

 ing which he considers came to the West Coast 

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