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brown. The hair of their heads, as in Mediterranese, is 

 more or less curled, neither quite smooth, like that of the 

 Euthycomi, nor actually woolly, like that of the Ulotrichi. 

 The strong development of the beard is also like that of the 

 Mediterranese. The oval form of face seems partly to be akin 

 to that of the Malays, partly to that of the MediteiTanese. 

 Their forehead is generally high, their nose prominent and 

 narrow, their lips slightly protruding. Their language is 

 now very much mixed with Indo- Germanic elements, but 

 seems to have been originally derived from a very peculiar 

 primteval language. 



The Nubian (Homo Nuba) has caused ethnographers no 

 fewer difficulties than the Dravida species. By this name 

 we understand not merely the real Nubians (Schangallas, or 

 Dongolese), but also their near kinsmen, the Fulas, or 

 Fellatas. The real Nubians inhabit the countries of the 

 Upper Nile (Dongola, Schangalla, Barabra, Cordofan) ; the 

 Fulas, or Fellatas, on the other hand, have thence migrated 

 far westward, and now inhabit a broad tract in the south of 

 the western Sahara, hemmed in between the Soudanians in 

 the north and the Nigritos in the south. The Nubian and 

 Fula races are generally either classed with negroes or with 

 the Hamitic races (thus with Mediterranese), but are so 

 essentially different from both that they must be regarded 

 • as a distinct species. In former times they very probably 

 occupied a large part of north-eastern Africa. The skin of 

 the Nubian and Fula races is of a yellowish or reddish 

 brown colour, more rarely dark brown or approaching to 

 black. Their hair is not woolly but curled, frequently even 

 quite smooth ; its colour is dark brown or black. Their 

 beard is much more strongly developed than in negroes. 



