100 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



earlier representations of the Negro — referable 

 to the *^ Twelfth Dynasty," . or to about 

 1,900 B.C. In these it is curious that the 

 Negro colour is strongly marked, but not the 

 Negro feature. This, however, may be due to 

 the unskilfulness of early art, or to the fact, 

 too often forgotten, that some African tribes 

 — as, for example, the Nubians — have not the 

 low flat nose or the projecting lips. Nor 

 is this the whole evidence afforded by the 

 Egyptian pictures. At periods not much later 

 in the history, we have elaborate representa- 

 tions of battles with Negro nations, — represen- 

 tations which go far to show that the race 

 was then more able to maintain a contest 

 with other races than it has ever been in 

 recent times. And of this a further proof 



