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bones not rarely lose not only their characteristic arch- 
shape but also their individuality, and anchylose with each 
other mesially. It is, however, right to add that nasals of 
the Bushman type are not rarely, though by no means 
invariably, to be found in Negro and Caffre crania. 
As regards the yellow hue of the skin, the likeness to 
the Mongolian races proper is perhaps less disputable, but 
with the skin we are bound to consider the hair, the 
peculiarities of which, as seen in the Bushman, are as 
different from those seen in the Mongolian variety of man- 
kind as it is possible for two varieties of human hair from 
the same area to be. " The thinnest and flattest hair is 
that of the Bosjesmans, Papuans, and Negroes ; the most 
cylindrical being that of Polynesians, Malays, Siamese, 
Japanese, and Americans. Europeans are between the 
two." Such are the microscopic characters of the hair in 
the several great divisions of our species, according to 
Topinard ("Anthropology ; " translated in Library of 
Contemporary Science by Dr. Bartley), and it is needless 
to contrast the spirally contorted and tufted dark hair of 
the Hottentot or Bushman with the coarse wire-drawn 
straight black hair of the Mongolian or Eskimo. It is 
curious, however, if indeed not otherwise significant, that 
the Central African " Bushmen," if so we may call them, 
of Ashango, occasionally bury their dead in a temporarily 
diverted stream-course, much as was done in the case of 
Attila, and, according to Mr. Wood, I.e., " in various parts 
of the world from the earliest known time." 
The Bushman race, as is well known, have strong 
proclivities in the direction of musical performances. The 
same, however, may be said of other priscan races as well 
as of them and the Mongolian and Kalmuck tribes,^ and 
^ The point of similarity is not, I apprehend, in the character of the music 
so much as in the fact that the compared peoples admire it such as it is. Of 
the Kalmuck music Pallas writes (and, as the work is little accessible, I quote) 
as follows, Samt7ilungen Historischer Nachi-ichter iiber die Mongolischen Vblker- 
schaften, i. p. 152 — "Die melodic der Kalmlicken, besonders ihre zartliche und 
verliebte Musick, hat solche langgezerte klagliche Tone und solche Dissonanzen 
dass sie ein gutgewohntes ohr mit noch fast mehr Widerwillen als alte Fran- 
zosische Musik, anhort ! " 
