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bone in the region between the alveolar process, in the 
region of the last molar, and the angle thickened at once 
by the insertions of the masseter and of the pterygoid. Of 
the four skulls one only fails to find a lower jaw which 
will in any way admit of coadaptation to it, and this skull 
being exaggeratedly dolichocephalous as well as of much 
larger size and proportions than the other three, may very 
well be supposed to have belonged to one of the attacking 
and not to one of the attacked tribe ; for I apprehend that 
in massacres, at least of Bushmen, the killing is not usually 
all on one side. The " reports," indeed, both of their 
enemies and of their friends, assure us that a Bushman at 
bay is a foe by no means to be despised, and that, though 
little, he is fierce. And I can say for those three crania 
that their toiU ensemble, as compared with that of Abantu 
skulls placed alongside of them, impresses me with the 
same kind of feeling which, after detailed measurements, 
I have felt in comparing the crania of Lapps with those 
of races such as the Finns living close to them. They 
appear to me, in fact, to indicate that their owners were 
of a smaller race than the owners of the skulls beside 
them, though the Bushman is not always a mere dwarf, 
as is sometimes stated. The feebleness of the two humeri, 
and even more notably of the fragment of ulna, and the 
small size of the cervical vertebrae, and of one of the two 
scapulae accompanying these bones, tells in the same 
direction, but does not prove feebleness of mind. 
For purposes of comparison with these three presum- 
ably Bushman crania, I have had three other crania at 
hand from the University Museum, of the genuineness of 
which there can be little doubt. One of these was pre- 
sented to the University Museum by the late and much- 
lamented Dr. W. H. J. Bleek, to whose labours ^ in eluci- 
dating the language and rescuing the folklore of the Bush- 
^ See his two Reports concerning his Researches into the Bushman Lan- 
guage and Customs and Folklore, presented to both Houses of Parliament of 
the Cape of Good Hope, by command of his Excellency the Governor, 1873 
and 1875, and Journal Attl/tJ'op. Inst. 1871. 
