TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 531 
JOHANNESBURG. 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 29. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. Arts and Crafts among the Natives of South Africa. 
By Dr. 8. ScHontanp. 
2. Bushmen and their Art. By W. A. Squire. 
3. Stone Implements in South Africa. By J. P. Jounson, 
4. The Basuto. By H. KE. Masini. 
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. The Last South African Potentate : Gugunhana. By Dr. Lieneme. 
2. The Racial Affinities of the Hottentots. 
By Professor Dr. F. von LuscHan. 
The Hottentot is an Hamitic language. In particular its grammar is strictly 
Hamitic, and only a few roots and a few clicks have been adopted from the 
Bushmen, just as some of the Southern Bantu languages have adopted clicks 
in the last few centuries. On the other hand, the Hamitie forefathers of the 
Hottentots lost their high stature and acquired steatopygia and spiral curled hair 
by intermarriage with Bushmen, probably many thousands of years ago. 
Bushman languages seem to be related with the languages of the Western 
Soudan, and perhaps also with some languages of the far east of Asia. 
Westermann was the first to show the isolating character of, and the import- 
ance of studying syllabic intonation varying in the Soudanic languages, just as, 
eg., in the Chinese. All the Pygmy races of Tropical Africa seem to be closely 
related to the Bushmen, but their languages have not yet been studied well 
enough to enable their exact relations to be determined. Their connection with 
the Pygmies of Southern Asia is also very probable. 
3. Ruins in Rhodesia. By D. Ranpaut-MacIver. See p. 301. 
4. Hahibition of Stone Implements from Zambesi. 
By G. W. Lameruen, F.2.S. 
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