. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. NATIVES OF BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 397 The chin is rather retreating in the women, but occasionally the men will have fine strong chins, though strong and prominent in a peculiar way by a sharp bulge immediately under the lower lip, a bulge which is clearly scooped out in a circular form on either side. As a rule there is a decided falling in of the jaw under the cheek bones while the jaw-bone again bulges out at its angle near the ear. I have
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. NATIVES OF BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 397 The chin is rather retreating in the women, but occasionally the men will have fine strong chins, though strong and prominent in a peculiar way by a sharp bulge immediately under the lower lip, a bulge which is clearly scooped out in a circular form on either side. As a rule there is a decided falling in of the jaw under the cheek bones while the jaw-bone again bulges out at its angle near the ear. I have never seen a continuously firm line of jaw, and another sign equally rare or non-existent is the cleft chin which is often seen in Europeans. The most prominent points of a negro's face, even of a good type, are the projecting cheek bones, the bulging forehead, the broad flat nose, deep and expanded nostrils, the everted lips, and the sharp, rounded, narrow chin. Almost all the male negroes of British Central Africa grow some moustache. It is ordinarily of scattered, thick, bristly hair, but sometimes the moustache hairs at the side are rather tightly curled. The beard is generally present but often reduced to a long tuft on the chin. In some cases, however, it crosses from ear to ear (often diminishing or falling off in the depressed portion of the jaw-bone on either side of the chin), and a narrow line of whiskers (little curled hairs) is also present in exceptionally hairy men. The question of face hair is largely one of cultivation, or no cultivation. Some of the men discourage hair on their faces and pluck out the hairs with a tweezer, others allow them to grow unchecked, and never shave, with the result that the face hair is often scattered and weak in growth. The negro men of Central Africa, as of other parts of the con- tinent, who attempt to live like Europeans and begin by shaving their faces regularly (instead of plucking out the hairs as the savages do), can in cour
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