3 I 2 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 



ably the whole of Eastern Africa), and are now approach- 

 ing their extinction. Besides the genuine Hottentots — of 

 whom there now exist only the two tribes of the Coraca (in 

 the eastern Cape districts) and the Namaca (in the western 

 portion of the Cape) — this species also includes the Bush- 

 men (in the mountainous interior of the Cape). The woolly 

 hair of all Hottentots grows in tufts, like brushes, as in the 

 case of Papuans. Both species also agree in the posterior 

 part of the body, in the female sex being specially inclined 

 to form a great accumulation of fat (Steatopygia). But the 

 skin of Hottentots is much lighter, of a yellowish brown 

 colour. Their very flat face is remarkable for its small fore- 

 head and nose, and large nostrils. The mouth is very broad 

 with big lips, the chin small and pointed. Their speech is 

 characterised by several quite peculiar guttural sounds. 



The next neighbours and kinsmen of Hottentots are 

 Kaffres (Homo Cafer). This woolly-haired human species 

 is, however, distinguished, like the following one (the 

 genuine Negro), from Hottentots and Papuans by the woolly 

 hair not being divided into tufts, but covering the head as a 

 thick fleece. The colour of their skin varies through all shades, 

 from the yellowish black of the Hottentot to the brown 

 black or pure black of the genuine Negro. While in former 

 times the race of Kaffres was assigned to a very smaU area 

 of distribution, and was generally looked upon only as- a 

 variety of the genuine Negro, this species is now considered 

 to include almost the whole of the inhabitants of equatorial 

 Africa, from the 20th degree south latitude to the 4th 

 degree north ; consequently, all South Africans, with the 

 exception of the Hottentots. They include especially the 

 inhabitants of the Zulu, Zambesi, and Mozambique districts 



