. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 1355 that the people of Delagoa Bay, though of the Kaff're race, as indicated by their language, being degraded by subjugation, approach the people of Guinea in their phy- sical characters. Generally speaking, the Kaf- fres are a people very superior in vigour and capacity to the destitute savages who occupy the insulated regions of Negroland, and how a considerable advance in civilization ; but between the most elevated Kaffre and the most degraded Negro, every possible gradation is presented to us
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 1355 that the people of Delagoa Bay, though of the Kaff're race, as indicated by their language, being degraded by subjugation, approach the people of Guinea in their phy- sical characters. Generally speaking, the Kaf- fres are a people very superior in vigour and capacity to the destitute savages who occupy the insulated regions of Negroland, and how a considerable advance in civilization ; but between the most elevated Kaffre and the most degraded Negro, every possible gradation is presented to us, as we pass northwards and westwards from Kaffraria towards the Guinea coast, so that no line of distinction between them can be founded on physical characters. So, on the eastern side, we puss up until we meet with the same transition. The languages of these people are distinguished by a set of remarkable characters, which have been con- sidered as isolating them from other African tongues. According to Dr. Latham, how- ever, these peculiarities are not so far without precedent elsewhere, as to establish the very decided line of demarcation which some have attempted to draw ; and may be regarded, in fact, as resulting from the fuller development of tendencies, which manifest themselves in other African languages. The Hottentot race (including the Bush- man) has, perhaps, so far as regards its phy- sical characters, a better title to be considered as forming a distinct species of the genus Homo than any other ; for not only do these characters present a combination which is not found elsewhere, but that transitional grada- tion is wanting, which usually presents itself wherever there is a continuous population that has long occupied the same locality. The peculiarities of these people have been already noticed separately; the following is a general (figs. 837, 838.), but summary of them. The cranium is Mongoli- capacity, they are much inferior. A compari- forrn and brachyceph
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