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larger facial angle than genuine Negroes, small lips and oval 

 face. 1 Barth 2 describes them as an intermediate race between 

 Negroes, Arabs, and Berbers, and observes, that the men, up 

 to the twentieth year, are often very handsome, but subse- 

 quently assume an apish physiognomy, which destroys the 

 Caucasian features. The Jambures, in the country of the Por- 

 tuguese settlements on the S. Domingo, the Casamanza, and 

 R. Grande, are perfectly black, but have neither flat noses nor 

 thick lips ; their features approach those of Europeans. 3 The 

 inhabitants of Cazegut (Bissagos-Archipelago) have agreeable 

 features, and have neither flat noses nor thick lips. 4 The 

 Krus and Grebos have a particularly well-shaped chin; the 

 facial angle is larger, the head more oval, and not so arched as 

 in the Negro. 5 A pleasing roundness of features and an oval face 

 are characteristic of the Odshis ; pointed and hooked noses are 

 not common amongst them, but flattened noses and thick pro- 

 truding lips are rare. 6 This is also the case among the natives of 

 Apollonia. 7 In Aquapim the head is partly globular, the nose 

 broad, lips thick ; occasionally it happens that the head is long, 

 the nose pointed, the lips small, nearly European ; the last form 

 prevails chiefly among the Ashantees, 8 among the higher ranks 

 of which not only fine women are seen, but regular Grecian faces 

 are frequently met with. 9 These characters are also to be found 

 in the higher classes of Dahomey, where some members of the 

 reigning family " are nearly of Moorish aspect, and not so black 

 as genuine Negroes." 10 The Mahis in the north of Dahomey 

 have long, and high crowned and posteriorly developed heads, so 

 characteristic of the genuine Negro-type, a shorter chin, but 

 less thick lips than the Dahomians, and an almost European 

 nose. 11 The Negroes of Yarriba possess only moderately thick 



1 M. Park, i, pp. 26, 91 ; Raffenel, p. 263. 



2 " Reise und Entd.," p. 505. 



3 " Bullet, soc. geogr.," i, p. 152, 1846, according to Lopes de Lima. 



4 Durand, " Voy. au Senegal, an. x," i, p. 185. 



* Allen and Thomson, " Narr. of the Exped. to the R. Niger," i, p. 124, 1848. 

 e " Baseler Miss.-Mag.," i, p. 53, 1856. 



7 Meredith, " Account of the Gold Coast," p. 61, 1812. 



8 " Baseler Miss.-Mag./' iv, p. 241, 1852. 



9 Bowdich, " Mission nach Ashantee," p. 422, 1820. 



10 Duncan, i, p. 238 ; Forbes, " Dahomey, and the Dahomians," pp. 17, 50, 

 Paris, 1851. 

 Duncan, ii, p. 273. 



