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from East Central Africa, who presented all the most 
hideous and exaggerated features of the Gold Coast 
negro, although the yellow faces in some of them might 
suggest an ancient strain of Hottentot or Bushman. 
Of course the Bantu is a negro—so is the Masai, 
the Wolof, the Mandiiigo, or the pale-faced Berta of 
Abyssinia; so also, in my opinion, are the Hottentots 
and Bushmen. All African races with frizzly hair I 
would call negroes, whether their noses varied (as they 
do in the same tribe) from the patulous, wide nostrilled, 
bridgeless form of the Bushman to the fine, aquiline, 
delicately-shaped organ which you encounter among 
the Masai or the Wolof. There is no feature constant 
like the hair. You may meet some tribes of Bushmen 
who are dwarfs, and others (such as those found near 
the Kunene and Upper Zambezi) who attain the average 
size. The colour of all negroes may vary in the same 
district from jet-black to tawny-yellow, but still their 
hair, though it may be long or short, is frizzly. Never¬ 
theless, among the negro races there are wide differ¬ 
ences that separate them into certain fairly well marked 
groups, the members of which evince more affinity for 
one another than for other sections of the sub-species 
or variety. Thus the low types of Masai resemble, not 
the Bantu, but the negro races of the Nile—the Siluk- 
JDinka people—from whom they perhaps originally 
sprang. The finest physical type of the Bantu, whether 
he be found in Damara-land, on the Victoria Nyanza, 
or in Natal, offers much the same characteristics in 
common, and does not at all resemble the Masai, who 
may be the highest development of the Nile negro, or 
the Wolof, who is among the handsomest samples of 
the races of Northern Guinea. Therefore, inasmuch 
as the mountaineers of the Kilima-njaro district and 
