THE WASA WAHILI. 



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the nostrils, lip, jaws, and chin is unmistakably 

 African. There are a few Albinos with silk-cocoon- 

 coloured hair, and tender-red eyes, their pinkish 



skins are cobwebbecl bv darker reticulations and 



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rough from pellagrous disease. Leucosis, however, 

 is rare ; we saw only two cases, one on the Island, 

 the other a youth near Tanga. 



The Wasawahili are by no means a jet-black 

 people, as Pritchard, misled by Dr Bird, has as- 

 sumed ; nor, indeed, is this the distinction of the 

 Zanzibarian races generally. The skin is a choco- 

 late-brown, varying in shades, as amongst our- 

 selves, but usually not darker than the complexion 

 of Southern Arabia. About Lamu and Patta the 

 colour is yellow-brown ; at Mombasah and Zanzi- 

 bar dark -brown ; and south of Kilwa, I am told, 

 black-brown. Mostly the hair is jetty, unless 

 sunburnt ; crisp, and ciirling short ; it splits after 

 growing a few inches long, and often it is planted 

 like the body pile, in distinct 'pepper-corns.' The 

 barbule is a degeneracy from the Arab goatee, and 

 the mustachios are short and scanty. The oval 

 skull, tao dolichocephalous to be purely Caucasi- 

 an, is much flattened at the walls, and sometimes 

 the upper, brow (the reflective region of Gall) is 

 too highly developed for the lower. The eyes, 

 with dark-brown pupils and cornea stained dirty 



