212 OK THE OKIGIN, &C. OF THE I.^ATIVE RACES 
The cranium of the Kaffre is inferior in most of its mea- 
surements to the European. The temporal bones are flat 
and compressed, and the squamous suture often straight, 
instead of being semicircular, as in the European *. They 
are nice in the choice of their food, and reject fish, fowls, 
and generally whatever by the Levitical law is deemed un- 
clean; yet they eat the inner parts of animals, as the in- 
testines, stomach, lungs, &c. raw, torn from the animal just 
dead. 
From a careful consideration of the habits and configu- 
ration of this race, I believe them to be closely allied to the 
Negro, and that the observable differences are attributable 
to the different climates they inhabit. The Kaffres, in a 
word, are the Negroes of the mountains ; they are Negroes 
changed by inhabiting an extra-tropical climate; hke all 
mountaineers, they are hardy, bold, and fond of liberty = 
In intellect they are superior to the Negro, and I believe 
them capable of a very considerable degree of civilization. 
The remarkable disproportion observable between the up- 
per and lower extremities of the Katfre -f* may, perhaps, be 
owing to the very unequal degree of exertion to which 
these separate parts of the body are exposed. The Kaffre 
never labours, and hence his arms are weak; but he is 
strongly exercised in the chase and in predatory excursions, 
by which means his limbs become muscular, and occasion- 
• Some Kaffre skulls have been shevsoa me, in which the malar bonea 
were remarkably large, and the face very broad ; but this is not the usual 
Kaffre physiognomy. Such anomalies exist amongst all nations and races, 
but cannot be supposed sufficient to refute the general position, that each 
race has a form of cranium and face peculiar to itself. 
-|- Of twenty-two ivory armlets, taken indiscriminately from the arms of 
Kaffres, four only were found which could admit the arm of a moderately 
muscular European. 
