SECT. IV.] NEGRO TYPE. 211 



whole mountain region on the Blue Nile and the Tpmat, from 

 Fassokl south to the Grallas, is inhabited by Negroes, who 

 differ, however, from the Shillook and Dinka on the White Nile, 

 being of a finer stock than these. 1 On the White Nile, from 

 6 to 7 N. lat., the Negro-type disappears gradually towards 

 the south, and among the southern Dinka peoples, so little 

 marked is it "that the greater part of Europeans would 

 resemble them if they were painted black." 2 The Negro-type 

 is accordingly, in East Africa, confined to but few small 

 peoples. 



On now turning our attention to the Negro regions proper, 

 between the Senegal and the Niger, we find that there prevails 

 as little, as in other parts of Africa, the same physical type in 

 perfect uniformity, though on the whole, the typical forms of 

 the Negro race are greatly predominating. The Jolofs between 

 the Senegal and the Gambia are of a dark, shining black colour ; 

 hair, lips, and nose are Negro-like, but not very decidedly 

 marked; 3 the nose is but moderately flat, the lips not very 

 thick; 4 figure and features frequently noble and regular. 5 The 

 brownish-black Mandingoes have more oval faces than the Ne- 

 groes proper ; the forehead is less prominent, larger, and more 

 receding, especially among the Fulahs; the head is rather 

 pointed towards the crown, the nose is very broad, and the 

 upper lip very large. 6 Some of the Mandingo tribes are 

 not so well made, they have thicker lips and flatter noses 

 than others; this applies to the Susus, as compared with 

 the Bullams and Timanis. 7 The Fulahs, who look down 

 upon the Negroes, 8 and consider themselves as Whites com- 

 pared with them, 9 do not everywhere exhibit the same colour 

 and type. In the west, they are usually reddish-brown, have 

 flat noses, but not very woolly hair, a broader forehead, and a 



1 Kusseger, " Eeise," ii, pp. 562, 762. 



2 Werne, "Exped. zur. Entd. der Q. des Weissen Nil," p. 241. 1848. 



3 Golberry, " Keise durch d. Westl. Afr.," i, p. 51, 1803. 



4 Park, " Voy. dans Tint, de 1'Afr.," an. viii, i, p. 24. 



5 Mollien, " Eeise in d. Innere von Afr./' p. 41, 1820. 



6 Golberry, ii, p. 114; Duncan, " E. in West- Afr.," p. 15, 1848; Eaffenel, 

 " Voy. dans FAfr. occ.," p. 394, 1846. 



7 Matthews, " Eeise nach S. Leone," p. 94, 1789. 



8 M. Park, i, p. 92. 



9 Lander, " Eeise z. Erforsch. des Niger," ii, p. 278, 1833. 



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