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NILOTIC NEGROES 



iiiiii'^lcl imicli witli tilt' Vy.mtn on the south or the Hamites on the north 

 ha\(- iii^rlv features as eonipared with such statuesque negroes as the lietter 

 <-lass (if Kavirondo, Zulu, or kindred Bantu races. Though the figure, 

 ho\vi-\cr. mav lie ugly from a sculptor's point "f viiMv (it being sometimes 

 long anil lackadaisical, at others sipiare-shouldcr.-d and thin-legged), the 

 men are powerfully hudf. and belong to a virile race. Where, as in 



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the ^outh of tlieir domain, they have mingled with the Bantu, tlie Masai, 

 or Hamite, they become (in tlie male sexj a handsome people corporeally, 

 the good looks even extending sometimes to the lineaments of the face. 

 The colour of the skin is genei'ally \ery dark : perhaps the blackest of 

 negroes are found in this Nilotic group, which really stretches westwards 

 across the .Sudan far beyond the limits of the Nile basin. The hands and 

 feet are usually small. Ihc arms are long, especially in the forearm. 



