AXTHROPOLOGY 



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He must have wandered across 

 the peninsuh^ of Arabia, follow- 

 ing, no doubt, the anthropoid 

 apes which preceded him alono- ' 



i' 



the >atiie route (Arabia then | 



being- well watered and covered | 



with vegetation) into Eastern 



Africa, and in all probability he 



made his first permanent home 



within the limits of the Uganda 



I'roteetorare. In Ai'abia he either 



nnngled with the Caucasian race \ 



from tlie north, or himself evolved 



a nobler and handsomer type. ', 



In one or other wa\' ainse tlie 



Tlandte,"* that negroid race which \ 



was the main ^tock of the : 



ancient Egyptian, and is re})ie- I 



sented at the ])resent dav bv ■ 



the Somali, the (iala, and some 



of the filood of Ab\s-<inia and 



of Xubia, and jierliaps In- the 



peoples of the Sahara Desert. : 



The Negro who first I'eaclied 



I ganda was ar] ugly dwarfish 

 ci'eafare of ape-like ajipearance, 

 \(^ry similar, I fancy, t(.> (he 



Pygmy-Prognathous t\pe which 

 lingers at tlie present day in 

 the forests of \\'estern and 

 Central Africa. From some such 

 stock as this, which is the under- | 

 hinij" >tratuni of all Xcijro races, 



may ha\i' arisen, in Somaliland, '' "^Xk 



perliajis, the ancestois of the 

 Piuslimen-Hottentot grouj), which 

 (dund its way down through 255. a iauuy iw mv, i'i>\,. 



I^astern Africa to Africa south 



of the Zambezi, in the western parts of which Bushmen an 

 still linger. Then deNclopeil the high-cheek-boned, tall, t liin- 

 of Ihe Sudan, and the blubber-lipped, cciarse-featured. black-sl 

 *" Anil fruiii this jiDssilily tlic Arali ov Semitic type. 



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1 Hott 



egged 

 inned 



entots 

 Negro 

 Neo-ro 



