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ANTHROPOLOGY 



256. A PYGMY OF THE CONGO FOKEST 



ity, community of language 



of the West African coast-lands, 

 and later the Bantu type, which 

 is little else than the West 

 African Negro tinged in varying 

 degrees with the results of 

 Hamitic intermixture (the Ham- 

 ites being either a half-way 

 stage in the evolution of a 

 white man* from the Negro, or 

 an invasion from Asia of a Cau- 

 casian people which ages ago 

 mixed considerably with Negroes 

 till it had acquired very marked 

 negroid characteristics). 



At the present day the negro 

 and negroid inhabitants in- 

 digenous to the Uganda Protec- 

 torate may for general purposes 

 be divided into five races or 

 types, these divisions and group- 

 ings being ; based mainly on 

 measurements of the body and 

 other physical characteristics, 

 though to some extent they are 

 also suj^ported by community of 

 habits and customs, and even 

 relationships in language. I am 

 fully aware that language is 

 often a misleading guide in 

 anthropological classification. A 

 Negro may be found speaking 

 an Aryan language or a member 

 of the white race may have 

 adopted a form of speech usually 

 associated with Mongolian Tnen. 

 Still, I should say that in about 

 six cases out of ten, especially 

 in the minor divisions of human- 

 accompanies physical characteristics held 



* I -write advisedly "a" white man, because white races may have arisen twice 

 or thrice or four times independently from ^Mongol, Negro, and the Neanderthal- 

 Australoid type. 



