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also among Berber and Negro tribes, such as the Maqwa 
the Denqa, and the Bonqo, and, it may be added, that it 
may be seen figured in the English translation of Schwein- 
furth's Heart of Africa, by Ellen E. Frewer, vol. ii. p. 121. 
As against the ethnological significance of the hyper- 
trophy of the nymphae, which constitutes the " viel be- 
sprochene Hottentotten-Schurze," the case is still stronger. 
For not only may this peculiarity be found amongst other 
African races, such as the Berber, Egyptian, and Negro 
(according to Hartmann, I.e. p. 489), and the Abantu and 
Sudan natives (according to Fritsch, Die Eingeborene, pp. 
282, 283), where its presence might be reasonably ex- 
plained by reference to peculiarities of diet or climate, 
but it may, according to Hartmann, be paralleled by 
observation carried on in the very different surroundings 
of North Europe. The words of the last-named authority, 
whose intimate acquaintance at once with Africa and 
Prussia will not be questioned, are to the following effect : 
" Die viel besprochene Hottentotten - Schurze ist fur 
Jemanden welcher fleissig die gebiirtshulfliche Station 
oder den Secirsaal einer grosseren Universitat, z, B. Berlin 
besucht, auch Berber, Aegypter, und Nigritierfrauen ganz 
nackt gesehen hat, kein auszeichnendes Rassenmerkmal 
mehr." 1 
The old view which ascribed a Mongolian origin to the 
Khoi-Khoin races is now pretty generally given up. A more 
important subject would, if I had space, be furnished me 
for discussion in the recent discoveries in Central Africa,^ 
which appears to point to the existence of kinship between 
the pigmy Akka and Obongo tribes and the Bushman. 
The main points which appeared to former writers to 
^ Many references to the older literature treating of the two peculiarities 
mentioned will be found in Waitz's Anthropologie, Th. i. pp. 120-122, 1859. 
An important note regarding the latter of the two is given by a man of science 
residing at the Cape of Good Hope in Professor Flower and Dr. Murie's 
"Account of the Dissection of a Bushwoman," Joui'ual 0/ Anato?ny and 
Physiology, No. II. May 1867, p. 208. 
2 For this see Hartmann, Die Nigritier, 1876, p. 492, who cites Schwein- 
furth, Heart of Africa, Eng. tran., vol. ii. chap, xvi., Du Chaillu, and the 
Rev J G. Wood, Natural History of Man. Africa, p. 538, 186S. 
