Handbook to the ethnographical collections . nied by annihilation orenslavement of the low-typenegroes), the two typesmerge one into the other ;but it is probal)le that thelower type represents thefirst wave of negro immi-gration which peopled WestAfrica, while the higherrepresents a second. These higher type ne-groes merge insensibly intothe Libyan or Berber north; and thereare numerous tribes show-ing mixture of black andwhite elements in everyproportion ; white, becausethe Libyans are essentiallya white race, in all prob-ability identical with thedolmen-builders of Inf
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . nied by annihilation orenslavement of the low-typenegroes), the two typesmerge one into the other ;but it is probal)le that thelower type represents thefirst wave of negro immi-gration which peopled WestAfrica, while the higherrepresents a second. These higher type ne-groes merge insensibly intothe Libyan or Berber north; and thereare numerous tribes show-ing mixture of black andwhite elements in everyproportion ; white, becausethe Libyans are essentiallya white race, in all prob-ability identical with thedolmen-builders of Infiltration of Libyan blood~^ into the Western SudanLoanso, had been taking place fromthe earliest times ; but theexpulsion of the Moors fromSpain at the end of the fifteenth century, and the exclusion ofthe peoples of North Africa from Europe, led the latter toturn their attention to the south ; and a century later a regularinvasion of the Western Sudan resulted. The confusion anddesolation resulting from the wars waged by the Moorish troops. Und View tShcM^ji^ rnsitfe Fi( 212—Wooden rat Africa. AFRICA 235
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