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bilious-yellow, are straight and well-opened, but 

 the nose is flat and patulous, the mouth is coarse 

 and ill-cut ; the lips, often everted, project un- 

 duly; the teeth are obliquely set, and the jaw is 

 prognathous. The figure is loose and pulpy, and 

 even in early manhood the waist is seldom finely 

 formed; in many men I have seen the nipples 

 placed unusually low down, whilst the women 

 have the flaccid pendulous breasts of negresses. 

 Both sexes fail in point of hips, which are lank 

 and angular, whereas those of the inner savages 

 are finely rounded. The shanks are bowed for- 

 wards, the calf is high raised and bunchy, the 

 heel is long, and the extremities are coarse and 

 large. There is another proof of African blood 

 which can hardly be quoted here : many overland 

 travellers have remarked it amongst the boatmen 

 of Egypt. 1 



Veritable half-castes, the Wasawahili have in- 

 herited the characters of both parents. Prom the 

 Arab they derive shrewd thinking and practice 

 in concealing thought : they will welcome a man 

 with the determination to murder him ; they have 

 unusual confidence, self-esteem, and complacency ; 



1 The curious reader will find it in the Travels of Marco 

 Polo (chap, xxxvii. note 1, p. 432, of Bohn's Antiquarian 

 Library). 



