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the technique, the subjects reproduced, are strong evidences that the 

 aborigines of the North and those inhabiting at one time South 

 Africa were of one race. The great antiquity of the race that once 

 inhabited Southern Algeria is proven by its representation of pre- 

 historic extinct animals, and representations of such a gigantic size 

 and of extinct animals have not yet been discovered in South Africa 

 it is true, although here also we had a buffalo probably more gigantic 

 still than the one depicted in Northern Africa. But there is 

 evidence all over South Africa of a jpalceolithic Stone Age which 

 cannot be attributed to a Bushman race, and which finds its exact 

 counterpart in Northern Africa and also in the Congo Kegion. On 

 the other hand, we have also evidence here of a neolithic, a recent 

 age, which is ascribable to the Bushman or Strand-Looper, in the 

 shape of the very minute stone implements with numerous secondary 

 chippings, used for boring small disks of ostrich shells. Identical 

 implements and similarly bored ostrich- shell beads are found in 

 Algeria, Tunis, Egypt, the Sudan, and Abyssinia.* 



Nor must it be forgotten that the date of the history of Egypt 

 is receding more and more as new discoveries are made ; that there 

 existed a pre-dynastic race which retained many of the physical 

 attributes of our modern Bushmen and Hottentots, and that many 

 scientific men of repute are of opinion that these Bushmen, or 

 Hottentots, as we call them here, are the remnants of that race 

 which have moved southward. 



* I mention here only one case in point. The others are dealt with in another 

 paper. 



