Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1912-10-05
Evidence That They Are Of the
haIniiE Line.
Views OF DR. Won LUSCHAN.
Migration and Colonization Chiof
! ttnaigamation Of Primitive Race.
/! %nthrofo'osy Of African a<sd. Pac4f!o
| Islanders Pointed Out
By JOHN B. BQUcB tSpIr,.

4 great many modem writer's and
not " few who wrote tn an earikr pe-
Nod are disposed to discre<lit the ArYi-
eau origin OF tho Egyptians. although
their color, customs aud other phys
1cal characteristics clearly indicate that
II any r,lce Of people ON earth came ont
OF the lotus OF Ham these dN.
Nothing seems to be more certain to
those who have studied the question
closely Dr. Felix pon Luschan, pro
fessor Of anth,opo4ogy In the Uni7ez-
sity Of Berlin. III an admirable paper
before the first universal races con-
gress. which met IN London IN 1011,
approaches the subject with more can
Dor and honesty than usually charac-
terize the writings or the uttcrances
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 hterme!ii-
ate colors' between white and block.
We also know from those. who have
Travelled In that country thnt the no
tor.ty OF its fnhabttnnts ore black and
possess all the physical characteristics
OF the African.
Cauee of Dietirct CoIor rarietiee.
The color OF the Egyptttp results
therefore. (rcm the ndmtxture Of tie
blood OF ncighbortns races with ttn
African blood OF these indigenous
blacks. Professor Won Luschan says:
While the first varieties of primitive
man were certainly formed and fixed
By long isolation, later variations and
races were caused by migration and
colonization. as might perhaps best be
ShcWn by sketching the anthropolOgy
OF Africa and the Pacific islands.
Just ns Madagascar was peopfed
coIonists coming from Sumatra, so un-
told ages ago the first inha b!tauts Of
Africa came from q place somewhere
IN southern Asia on the great limo from
Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or
skeletons Of these earliest Africans aru
Gs yet known, but we may hope to fiDd
them sooner or later, as we already
now know n good many sites of paleo-
lithic implements in various parts Of
IIc,)icNl HDl SONlISTH AIIJC0~
The anatomical qualities Of these
first Africans Will certainly be found
to differ from those Of aboriginal Aus
tralians, but IN tens Of hundreds Of
thousands Of years the InlcOlithic AZ
rican evolved into q real Negro. IIe
exists III two varieties--a tall variety
Ike the modern Nigrithn from tho
coast Of upper Guinea and small
one like the busbmen and the pygmies,
now known In SO many places IN cen
trail Africa
Third Raoe Makee lts Appear arfoe.
But I have already stated that we
are ns yet quite ignorant Of the real
home Of these small racea To these
two oldest clements IN Afr}ca was add
ed ages afterward. but still In prehs-
toric times. third one, the HamltIc.
1t is descended from the same ancient
GibraltarAustraia line. but wac In q
higher stage Of civilization.
Tbcac Uamitcs had already 81 greatly
refined language, with an admirable
grGfnnur closely relate to that Of the
Semitic and Indo-Germanic languages.
III Egypt they created more than 5000
years ago the marvellous civilization we
now admire as the mother of our own.
Ancient Hamitic Influences can be
traced all through Africa. In Abys-
sinia. in Gala, Somali. and in Ma
guagcs or ut least HGmitic grammar