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BIMANA. 



Skull of Mozambique. 



of the maxillary, projecting. In this skull, as in that of the Ashantee, 



221 the coronal suture joins the temporal 

 bone, the sphenoid failing to send up 

 its wing so high and backward as to 

 meet the parietal. 



Fig. 222. Skull of a Caffre. The 

 general contour is elongated; the 

 forehead is retreating ; the glabella 

 is arched and prominent ; the nasal 

 bones are flat ; the interorbital space 

 is very great ; the alveoli of the 

 upper jaw project forward ; the 

 lower jaw is deep at the symphysis 



menti, but the posterior part of the ramus is narrow, and the angle 



boldly prominent. 



In the skull of a Caffre, given by Dr. Prichard (see Researches, &c., 



222 vol. i. p. 597, fig. 5), copied from 

 a figure in the Wernerian Transac- 

 tions, the amplitude and convexity 

 of the forehead, as well as of the 

 occiput, are far superior to what 

 obtains in the specimen in the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, from which 

 the foregoing figure was taken ; the 

 alveoli, moreover, are less oblique. 

 Doubtless, great allowance is to be 

 made for individual differences, and 



skuii of caffre. those, also, of tribes of the same race. 



Fig. 223. Skull of a Bushman. The general contour of this skull is 



somewhat elongate, with a low forehead ; but the parietal bones bulge 



considerably at their centre, giving 

 breadth to the posterior part of the 

 cranial cavity ; behind the coronal su- 

 ture they are depressed, a sort of fur- 

 row, or transverse channel, being thus 

 produced : the nasal bones are short, 

 and quite flat ; the nasal orifice is 

 broad. There is no coronal elevation ; 

 the face is flat and broad, with pro- 

 skuii of Bushman. jecthig alveolar processes, and the 



interorbital space, owing to the development of the ascending, or nasal 

 branches of the superior maxillary, is considerable ; the cheek-bones are 

 high and prominent ; the lower jaw, with an acute posterior angle, is 



