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another 3 or 4 per cent, display features which 
suggest the influence of negro admixture, but in 
so undecided a manner that it would be rash to 
dogmatise concerning them. 
" The problem of the relationship of the early 
Egyptians and the Arabs is one that presents singular 
elusive difficulties. . . . But the modern Arab, such 
as those now dwelling in the provinces of Yemen 
and Hejaz, and the wandering Bedouin who make 
their way into Egypt, present so close a likeness to 
the proto-Egyptian racial type that it would be a 
matter of some difficulty to discriminate between 
their osseous remains." 
Dr Seligmann has also recognised the close resemblance 
between the Hadendoa — a tribe living on the western 
shores of the Red Sea near Suakin — and the predynastic 
Egyptians. 
Thus, although the inhabitants of modern Egypt differ 
in many minor features from the men who lived along 
the Nile six thousand years ago — a difference which, as 
Professor Elliot Smith has shown, is largely the result of 
admixture with alien races — yet the early predynastic type 
still persists. We have seen the same persistence of 
ancient type in England. The Neolithic Briton of the 
river-bed type still survives. 
The cemetery at Naga-ed-Der, which first provided 
Elliot Smith with the skulls and remains of predynastic 
Egyptians, lies on the Nile over four hundred miles south 
of Cairo. Our next point of investigation takes us south 
of Khartoum to Gebel Moya, a station situated on an arid 
range of granite hills between the Blue and White Niles. 
In 1 9 10, Mr Henry S. Wellcome commenced a series of 
explorations at Gebel Moya, and discovered a cemetery of 
prehistoric date. Some of the graves may have been dug 
in the time of the earlier Egyptian dynasties. In the 
deeper graves "fossilised" skeletons of a tall negro race 
were found, belonging to a race not unlike the tall, long- 
limbed negro tribes who now live along the valley of the 
