TRUE NEGROES. 



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on the east coast, the large human families of the Beschuans 

 or Setschuans in the interior, and the Herrero and Congo 

 tribes of the west coast. They too, like the Hottentots, 

 have immigi-ated from the north-east. Kaffres, who were 

 usually classed with Negroes, differ very essentially from 

 them by the formation of their skull and by their speech. 

 Their face is long and narrow, their forehead high, and their 

 nose prominent and frequently curved, their lips not so pro- 

 truding, and their chin pointed. The many languages of 

 the different tribes of Kaffres can all be derived from an 

 extinct primaeval language, namely, from the Bantu lan- 

 guage. 



The genuine Negro (Homo Niger) — when Kaffres, Hot- 

 tentots, and Nubians are separated from him — at present 

 forms a much less comprehensive human species than was 

 formerly supposed. They now only include the Tibus, in 

 the eastern parts of the Sahara; the Sudan people, or 

 Sudians, who inhabit the south of that large desert ; also 

 the inhabitants of the Western Coast of Africa, from the 

 mouth of the Senegal in the north, to beyond the estuary 

 of the Niger in the south (Senegambians and Nigritians). 

 Genuine Negroes are accordingly confined between the 

 equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, and only a small por- 

 tion of the Tibu tribe in the east have gone beyond this 

 boundary. The Negro species has spread within this zone, 

 coming from the east. The colour of the skin of genuine 

 negroes is always more or less of a pure black. Their 

 skin is velvety to the touch, and characterised by a 

 peculiar offensive exhalation. Although Negroes agree with 

 Kaffres in the formation of the woolly hair of the head, 

 yet they differ essentially in the formation of their face. 



