INTO FIVE DIVISIONS. 485 



and civilization, they excel the true Negroes as much as in 

 organization *. 



The Hottentot race is again clearly distinguished both 

 from the KafiFers and Negroes. 1 have mentioned in another 

 place (p. 379.) their very short stature. The colour of the 

 skin is a yellowish brown, or that of a faded leaf. The 

 cheek-bones are high, and much spread out in the lateral 

 direction, so that this is the broadest part of the face ; which 

 is suddenly contracted below to a very narrow and pointed 

 chin. The nose is remarkably flat, and broad towards its 

 end ', but in some it is more raised. The forehead has a 

 narrow appearance, from the great breadth across the clieeks, 

 but it is not either contracted or low.—" The colour of the 

 eyes Is a deep chesnut ; they are very long and narrow, re- 

 moved to a great distance from each other ; and the eyelids, 

 at the extremity next to the nose, instead of forming an angle, 

 as in Europeans, are rounded into each other, exactly like 

 those of the Chinese, to whom. Indeed, in many other points, 

 they bear a physical resemblance."—" The hair Is of a very 

 singular nature : It does not cover the whole surface of the 

 scalp, but grows In small tufts at certain distances from 

 each other, and when kept short has the appearance and feel 

 of a hard shoe-brush, with this difference, that it Is curled 

 and twisted Into small round lumps about the size of a mar- 

 rowfat-pea. When suffered to grow, it hangs In the neck 

 in hard twisted tassels like fringe f." The organization of 

 the Bosjesmen is the same In all essential points %, 



IV. The American Variety Is characterized by a dark 

 skin of a more or less red tint ; black, straight, and strong 



* Barrow's Southern Africa; v. i. ch. 3. Lichtenstein's Trcweh, c!i. 

 18. For excellent portraits of Kaffers, see Mr. S. Daniell's African Scenery 

 and Animals; fol. 



+ Barrow, lib. cit. p. 157-8. Dr. Somervil-le, Obs. de Gente, Hottentot- 

 taramm Medico Chir. Trans, v. Vm. Portrait of a Hottentot; Barrow. 

 Travels in China, p. 50. Kora, Hottentot woman, Barrow, Voyage to Cochin 

 China, p. 373. Booshuana man and woman ; ibid. p. 394. But the best 

 representations of these people and the Bosjesmen are to be seen in Mr. 

 Daniell's African Scenery and Animals. 



\ Barrow's Africa^ v. i. p. 278. 



