Wanderings in Eastern Africa. 
jaws, retreating chins, high calves, bowed shins, large 
flat feet, and ''lark heels," are certainly met with; but, 
on the other hand, many of the people possess a 
figure, form, and set of features rather Asiatic than 
African, and in some cases resembling the European. 
You are constantly meeting, as Dr. Livingstone says 
of some of the southern races, with persons who 
remind you of your acquaintances in your own 
country. Properly the Wanika would appear to oc- 
cupy a place between the Shemitic and Hamitic races. 
They are below the middle size, but some fine men 
are met with among them. They are, generally speak- 
ing, strong and robust. You find among them all 
shades of colour between a warm olive and a deep 
black. The majority of them, however, are of the 
intermediate shades. Black is not admired, as it is 
considered to be the colour of the slave ; the lighter a 
man is, the more easily is he believed to be possessed 
of Kiunguana (free) blood. 
The mental capacity of the Wanika, as may be 
supposed, is not of a very high order. It is not to be 
expected that it should be so. It is wonderful, con- 
sidering what their condition has been from time im- 
memorial, that they should possess the mental power 
they do. We talk of races degenerating, and races have 
degenerated and do degenerate fearfully, but there 
would seem to be a point below which human nature 
cannot sink. Admitting the possibility of unlimited 
degeneration, the wonder is that the Wanika, and the 
peoples of similar character, have not become down- 
right idiots. Yet they are farther removed from idiocy 
than from a high intellectuality. The great Creator 
^vould seem to have placed animpassable barrier to utter 
