398 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
generally of a “‘light-yellow colour.”* In Equatorial Africa, 
Emin Pasha states that the people of Magingo are of a black 
colour, “through which, however, appears very distinctly a red 
sround tone” +; and he further describes “‘a streamlet dyed red 
with the iron that impregnates the soil.”” { In Unyoro the same 
author writes of the exposed ‘‘red clayey subsoil,” § and describes 
the people of this district as reddish brown in colour.|| Again, 
in the Wadelai district, he writes of the inhabitants as ‘‘in colour 
black, with a reddish brown tinge.’ { In Mashonaland Mr. 
Kckersley states that the soil of the plateau between Umtali and 
Salisbury consists, for the most part, of decomposed granite, &c. 
“ Large areas of red soil are, however, frequently met with,” &c.** 
Of the Mashonas, he writes: ‘‘ Their skin has a fine healthy glow, 
its colour being dark chocolate brown, some shades removed from 
black.” tt According to Ratzel, ‘“‘ Stokes, one of the most ex- 
perienced of all Australian travellers, sums up his judgment in 
the phrase, ‘ The Australians vary as curiously as their soil.’” {{ 
Lord Geo. Campbell in one of the Fiji islands, describing the 
men engaged on the yam-grounds, adds: ‘“‘ Working on the brown 
soil, which is very much their own colour too.’ §¥ Richtofen, 
in a work—apparently still untranslated into English—in his 
physical exposition of the soil of Northern China, to which the 
German name of Léss has been applied, states that this Lédss is 
so predominant in the basin of the Wei river, on which stands 
Singanfu, that its yellow hue affects the whole landscape, and 
even tinges the atmosphere. ||||_ Its suggested partial application 
here to the colour of the Chinese, as an incident in the argument, 
requires no further emphasis. 
* ¢ Miss. Travels and Researches in 8. Africa,’ p. 78. 
+ ‘Emin Pasha in Central Africa,’ p. 16. 
t Ibid. p. 20. § Ibid. p. 50. 
| Lbed. p. 52. 
‘| Ibid. p. 143.—According to Dr. Junker, ‘‘a decided black complexion 
nowhere occurs, and that it would be merely more correct to speak of a 
brown, a copper, or chocolate-coloured, than of a black race in Africa” 
‘Travels in Africa, 1879-1883’; Engl. transl. p. 190). 
** © Geographical Journal,’ vol. v. p. 35. t+ Ibid. p. 438. 
{{ ‘ History of Mankind,’ vol. i. p. 389. 
§§ ‘Log Letters from the “ Challenger,”’ p. 147. 
|| || ‘ China—Ergebnisse eigener Reisen und darauf gegriindeter Studien.’ 
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