ETHNOLOGY. 293 



gols, Eskimos, and Australians the nasals very ordi- 

 narily form a more or less elevated arch, and they 

 are not by any means so narrow as they are almost 

 always in the Bushman race. In this latter these bones 

 not rarely lose not only their characteristic arch-shape 

 but also their individuality, and anchylose with each 

 other mesially. It is, however, right to add that nasals 

 of the Bushman type are not rarely, though by no 

 means invariably, to be found in Negro and Caffre 

 crania. 



As regards the yellow hue of the skin, the likeness to 

 the Mongolian races proper is perhaps less disputable, but 

 with the skin we are bound to consider the hair, the 

 peculiarities of which, as seen in the Bushman, are as 

 different from those seen in the Mongolian variety of 

 mankind as it is possible for two varieties of human hair 

 from the same area to be. " The thinnest and flattest 

 hair is that of the Bosjesmans, Papuans, and Negroes; 

 the most cylindrical being that of Polynesians, Malays, 

 Siamese, Japanese, and Americans. Europeans are be- 

 tween the two." Such are the microscopic characters 

 of the hair in the several great divisions of our species, 

 according to Topinard (' Anthropology,' translated in 

 ' Library of Contemporary Science ' by Dr. Bartley), and 

 it is needless to contrast the spirally contorted and 

 tufted dark hair of the Hottentot or Bushman with the 

 coarse wire-drawn straight black hair of the Mongolian 

 or Eskimo. It is curious, however, if indeed not other- 

 wise significant, that the Central African " Bushmen," if so 

 we may call them, of Ashango, occasionally bury their 

 dead in a temporarily diverted stream -course, much as 

 was done in the case of Attila, and, according to Mr. 

 Wood, I.e., " in various parts of the world from the earliest 

 known time." 



The Bushman race, as is well known, have strong 

 proclivities in the direction of musical performances. 

 The same, however, may be said of other priscan races 

 as well as of them and the Mongolian and Kalmuck 



