ETHNOLOGY. 291 



that it may be seen figured in the English translation of 

 Schweinfurth's ' Heart of Africa,' by Ellen E. Frewer, 

 vol. ii. p. 121. 



As against the ethnological significance of the hyper- 

 trophy of the nymphae, which constitutes the " viel be- 

 sprochene Hottentotten-Schurze," the case is still stronger. 

 For not only may this peculiarity be found amongst other 

 African races, such as the Berber, Egyptian, and Negro 

 (according to Hartmann, I.e. p. 489), and the Abantu and 

 Sudan natives (according to Fritsch, ' Die Eingeborene 

 Siid-Afrika's,' pp. 282, 283), where its presence might be 

 reasonably explained by reference to peculiarities of diet or 

 climate, but it may, according to Hartmann, be paralleled 

 by observation carried on in the very different surroundings 

 of North Europe. The words of the last-named authority, 

 whose intimate acquaintance at once with Africa and 

 Prussia will not be questioned, are to the following 

 effect : — 



"Die viel besprochene Hottentotten-Schurze ist fur 

 Jemanden welcher fleissig die gebiirtshulfiiche Station 

 oder den Secirsaal einer grosseren Universitat, z. B. 

 Berlin besucht, auch Berber, Aegypter, und Nigritierfrauen 

 ganz nackt gesehen hat, kein auszeichnendes Rassen- 

 merkmal mehr." 1 



The old view which ascribed a Mongolian origin to 

 the Khoi-Khoin races is now pretty generally given up. 

 A more important subject would, if I had space, be fur- 

 nished me for discussion in the recent discoveries in 

 Central Africa, 2 which appear to point to the existence 



1 Many references to the older literature treating of the two peculiarities 

 mentioned will be found in Waitz's ' Anthropologic,' th. i. pp. 120-122 (1859). 

 An important note regarding the latter of the two is given by a man of science 

 residing at the Cape of Good Hope in Professor Flower and Dr. Murie's 

 ' Account of the Dissection of a Bushwoman,' Journal of Anatomy and Physio- 

 logy, no. ii. May 1867, p. 208. 



2 For this see Hartmann, 'Die Nigritier,' 1876, p. 492, who cites 

 Schweinfurth, 'Heart of Africa,' Eng. trans., vol. ii. chap, xvi., Du Chaillu, 

 and the Rev. J. G. Wood, 'Natural History of Man,' Africa, p. 538(1868). 



