Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . races from •DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BLACKS. 527 the eastern coast of Africa arc for a dis-tance of about ten degrees from theocean hypothetical, the country throughwhich they pass being- now occupied bytribes of another race. It may be conceded that the oldestbranch of the Negro family, upon thePlace and dis- consideration of which weare now to enter, are theFundi-Sudanese, who oc-cupy the country between t
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . races from •DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BLACKS. 527 the eastern coast of Africa arc for a dis-tance of about ten degrees from theocean hypothetical, the country throughwhich they pass being- now occupied bytribes of another race. It may be conceded that the oldestbranch of the Negro family, upon thePlace and dis- consideration of which weare now to enter, are theFundi-Sudanese, who oc-cupy the country between the Blue andthe White Nile for some distance south of tribution of theFundi-Sudan-ese. At this point it may be well to des-ignate the principal branches into whichthe Negro race proper is divided. Thenorthern stem, next to the Kinship of FuiahFundi just mentioned, car- an^ Fundi races; J > subordinate ried into Central Africa families,the Negroes of the Sudan and perhapsthe Fulah races lying to the trouble has arisen as to the classi-fication of the latter peoples, and thereare traces in their color and other pecul-iarities indicative of an admixture of S: -. *0i BAMBARRA TYPES.—Drawn by Emile Bayard their intersection. It is likely that thiswas the first territorial dispersion of thefamily which afterwards spread throughthe larger part of the continent to thewest and south. The Fundi seem neverto have removed very far from theiroriginal seats. They founded here thekingdom of Sennaar. They have thesame peculiarities of person and tribalcharacter with the Negroes of Southernand Western Africa, and are certainlv inaffinity with them by race descent. Hamitic blood. By the Sudanese, how-ever, the Fulahs are regarded as of thesame race with themselves, and, on thewhole, the evidences of kinship with theBlack peoples on the south are sufficientto warrant this classification. Several subordinate families werethrown off from this same northernmoststem of Black disper
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