^14 ON THE ORIGIN, &C. OF THE NATIVE RACES 
tions are constantly refuted by an appeal to facts. The feet 
and hands of the KafFre and Bosjeman are strictly and 
beautifully proportional: though they be carried during 
infancy in the same manner as the Negro, they are never 
bandy-legged or deformed. The African nose is flat, inde- 
pendent of any mechanical skill exercised by the nurse; 
and human crania are fashioned all over the world by the 
hands of Nature, and not by man. 
Var. Mongol. 
'frue Mongol inhabiting the deserts 
of Central Asia. 
Colour yellow, or of an olive tinge. 
Hair black, coarse, straight, and 
scarce. 
Head of a square form. 
Face broad, flat, depressed, the fea- 
tures being therefore, as it were, 
confluent. 
Forehead smooth and flat. 
Nose small and flat. 
Aperture of the eye-lids narrow and 
linear. 
Chin somewhat projecting. 
African Bosjeman, including the 
numerous Hottentot tribes, as Na= 
maquas, &c. &c. 
Colour light yellow, or olive ; it is 
diflftcult to describe, and varies in 
intensity amongst the Hottentots; 
but is pretty uniform amongst the 
true Bosjeman. 
Hair black, usually short, though 
sometimes growing to a consider- 
able length, and is scattered over 
the scalp in detached tufts, as In 
the Kaffre. 
General outline of the head much re- 
sembles the Mongol, that is, broad 
and square. 
Face having a considerable resem- 
blance to the true Mongol; the 
lips are full. 
As in the Mongol. 
As in the Mongol. The angle at the 
internal canthus of the eye is quite 
rounded away. 
Chin very small and pointed, but not, 
projecting. 
