78 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



of the Ghilane tribe, with curly hair, like 

 one of the Positivists, on the top of his 

 head, but no beard "his tail was more 

 than three inches long, and as flexible as that 

 of a monkey." 



About the same date, Dr. Joseph Wolff, 

 the famous Jewish Missionary, in his 

 Travels and Adventures , says " there are 

 men and women in Abyssinia with tails 

 like dogs and horses" And he adds, in 

 confirmation of this strange tale, that 

 " in the College of Surgeons at Dublin 

 may still be seen a human skeleton, with a 

 tail seven inches long" * 



M. de Castelneau, who visited the same 

 country in 1851, says that " the Niam- 

 niams of Abyssinia had all of them tails 4Q 

 centimetres long, quite smooth, and that the 

 women were deformed in the same 

 manner." But his countryman, M. d'Ab- 

 badie, on the authority of an Abyssinian 

 priest, however, contradicts one part of 

 the story by declaring, that " though all 



* See Appendix GK 



