Franklin's paper the statesman., 1912-10-05
Evidence That They Are Of the
namitic Line.
VIEWS OF DR. Won LUSCHAA
Migration and Colonization Chief
Among Many Causes Given For
AmaIsamation of Primitive Races.
AnthropoIosy of African and Pacific
Islanders Pointed Out.
By JOHN E. BRUCE tcRID.

A great many modern writers and
DOT a few who wrote in an earlier Pc
riod are disposed TO discredit the Afri-
can origin OF the Egyptians. although
their color. customs and other phys
ical characteristics clearly indicate that
II any race of people on earth came out
of the loins of Ham these did.
Nothing seems to be more certain to
those who have studied the question
closely. DR.. Felix Won Luschan, pro-
fessor of anthropology in the Univer-
sity OF Berlin. in an admirable paper
before the first universal races con
gress which met in London in 1911.
approaches the subject Wa more can
dor and honesty than usually charac-
terize the writings or the utterances
OF white men who have investigated
this subject
While we know or have been told
that all the Egyptians are not white
or brown or OF any Of the intermedi-
ate colors between white and black,
we also know from those who have
Travelled In that country that the ma
jority OF its Inhabitants are black and
possess all the physical characteristics
OF the African.
Cause Of Distinct Color Varieties.
The color OF the Egyptian results.
therefore. from the admixture OF the
blood OF neighborinE races with the
African blood OF these indigenous
blacks Professor Won Luschan says:
While the tir7St varieties OF primitive
man were certainly formed and 6Ned
by long isolation. later variations and
races were caused by migration and
colonization. A. might perhaps best be
shown by sketchiug the anthropoloGy
OF Africa and the Pacific Islands
Just ms Madagascar was peopled
about 900 or 1000 \. d. by lndoresinn
colonlsts coming from Sumntra. so un-
told ages ago the first inhabitants OF
Africa came from n place somewhere
In southern Asia on the great line from
Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or
skeletons OF these earliest Africans are
\ ns vet known. hut we may hope TO find
them sooner or later. rs we already
now know good many sites OF paleo-
lithic implements In various parts or
tropical and southern Africa.
The anatomical qualities OF these
nrst Africans will certainly he found
TO dlfrer from those Of aboriginal Aus
tralIans. but in tens OF hundreds OF
thousands OF Years the palcolithic AZ
ricnn evolved into real Negro. He
exists u two varietics-a tall variety
Ike the modern Nigritian from the
coast OF upper Guinea and small
one like the bushmen and the pygmies.
now known in SO many places In cen
tral Africa.
Third Race Makes Its Appearances.
But | have already stated that we
are as yet quite ignorant Of the real
home OF these small races. To these
two oldest elements In Africa was add
ed nges afterwnrd but still In prchis-
torlc times. third one. the Hamitic.
II Is descended from the same ancient
GIbraltar-Aust line. but was In a
higher stage of civilization.
These Hamltes had already n greatly
refined language. with an admirable
grammar closely related TO that OF the
Semitic and Indo- Germanic languages
In Egypt they created more than COCO
years ago the marvellous civilization we
now admire as the mother of our own.
Ancient Hamitic influences can be
traced nil through Africa. In Abys-
sinia. In Gala. Somali. and In Ma
sailand we find even now Hamiuc Ian
guaCes or at least Hamitic grammar
and Hnmitic types In central Africa.
in the region OF the great lakes. we
have the iIimn and 1usi. generally as
chiefs reigning over Bantu tribes. Of
ten with face and figure ike those OF
the old pharaohs OF Egypt.
Physical Features of Hamitic Type.
Even in South Africa nearly | per
cent OF the actual Bantu population
have high and narrow noses. thin lips
and fine large orthognathic skulls
OF the Hamitic type and all the Hot
tentot languages and dialects have n
pure uamitic grammar, Also the pas
toral hnbits Of many Africa tribes.
their long horned cattle. spiral basket
work. etc. are tIamidc. and all can
thus trace HamiLc influence from the
Nile TO the Cape of Good Hope.
Still there are some Negroes and
many. many white people in this coun-
try who profess 10 believe with sort
of plying contempt that the African
Is an unredeemablc barbarian
Rev. II. u. l.. Thompson or Sierra
Leone. West Africa, in his address be
fore the Negro Society For Historical
Research of Youkcrs. n. Y. on the
subject Race Consciousness Race
Ideal" said among other things AS
the prcpondcrancc of the inhabitants
of Egypt today are OF unmixed Afri-
can blood. we may think reasonably
conclude that these people are OF Afri-
can origin. Otherwise how are we to
account for their black faces crisp