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approximating to the higher types of ancient Egypt and the modern Arab. The 

 most southern extension of these people is marked by the Hima or Ked Men 

 of Uganda, who bear a striking resemblance to the FuUa. The Hima reached 

 Equatorial Africa through Abyssinia ; and when first they arrived amongst 

 the blacks they were regarded as superior and supernatural beings, the spirits 

 of the dead returned to life, and one of their names means " Spirits of the 

 Departed," for the black man thinks that after death his soul is not black, 

 but paler, nearly white. The Hima are not Mahommedans, and are great 

 believers in sorcery and witchcraft ; they were nomadic, brought with them 

 cattle and dogs, and are the great cattle-keeping aristocracy of East Africa. 



A migration of these Saharan people took place to the coast lands of the 

 Mediterranean, where they seem to have come in contact with a fairer race, 

 and mixed. In time this people became modified by environment, and 

 divided into a fair and a brown race, the former occupying the highlands of 

 North-west Africa, where they are still represented in their old home by the 

 Berbers, or African blonds. The brown race took the lowlands and coast 

 region, and became known as the Libyans ; as a race they are nearest in rela- 

 tion to the Egyptian, and constitute an intermediate form between the Semitic 

 and the African of the south. In the Egyptian records both races are known 

 as Libyans. 



These races occupied their present country before the beginrung of 

 historical tradition, and must have become distinct and numerous at an early 

 period. At a very early time these dolichocephalic people crossed to 

 Europe ; they appear to have come in successive waves, and there divided, 

 in accordance with climatic and geographical conditions, into a brunette and 

 a fair race. This stock preserved its primitive burial customs of inhumation. 

 Wherever it settled we find traces of its characteristic architecture in the 

 chambered tomb which has its highest development in the pyramid. 



The megalithic monuments which characterize this race are found not only 

 all over northern Africa, but in the islands of the Mediterranean, Malta, 

 Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica; and all over western Europe — the Iberian 

 peninsula, and especially the west of Prance and Ireland; also in Great 

 Britain, Denmark, and the Scandinavian peninsula. Those of western Africa 

 are earlier in point of time, as is shown by their structure and artistic 

 inferiority ; and they vary in architectural type from the dolmen and kistvaen 

 of Morocco and the tumuli of the Niger and the chambered tombs still found 

 among some of the lower races as far south as the Guinea Coast, all of which 

 probably had their origin in a primitive litholatry practised in the common 

 home. 



The Palaeolithic inhabitants of Egypt were a hunting people of the 



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