The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1912-10-05
AFRICAN ORIGIN
OF EGYPTIANS
Evidence That They Are Of the
hamitic Line.
VIEWS OF Or Won LuSCHAN.
Migration and Colonization chief
Among Many Causes Given For
Annaisamation Of Primitive Races.
Anthropology Of African and Pacific
islanders Pointed Out.
By JOHN E. BRUCE tGRIT).

By JOHN e. BRUCE (GRIT).
A great many modern writer's and
not few who wrote In an earlier pc.
Rod are disposed to discredit the Afri-
can origin Of the Egyptians. although
their color, customs and other phys.
Ical characteristics clearly indicate that
If 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 with 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 intermedl-
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 resuiss,
therefore. from the admixture Of the
blood of neighboring races with the
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
shown by sketching the anthropology
Of Africa and the Pacific islands.
Just as Madagascar was peopled
about 900 or 1000 A. D. by 1ndoresian
colonists coming from Sumatra. so un-
told ages ago the first inhabitants Of
Africa came from place somewhere
in southern Asia on the great line from
Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or
skeletons of these earliest Africans are
as yet known, but we may hope to find
them sooner or later, as we already
now know a good many sites Of paleo-
lithic implements in various parts Of
tropical and southern Africa.
The anatomical qualities Of these
irst Africans will certainly be found
to differ from. those Of aboriginal Aus
tralians. but in tens Of hundreds Of
thousands Of years the paleolithic A.
rican evolved into a real Negro. He
exists in two varieties-a tall variety
like the modern Nigritian from the
coast Of upper Guinea and small
one like the bushmen and the pygmies,
now known In 80 many places In cen
tral Africa.
Third Race Makes Its Appearance.
But I 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 ages afterward. but still In prehls-
torlc times. third one. the Hamitlc.
1t is descended from the same ancient
Gibraltar-Australia line. but was In a
higher stage Of civilization.
These Hamites had already a greatly
refined language, with an admirable
gra mmar closely related to that Of the
Semitic and Indo- Germanic languages
In Egypt they created more than 5000
years ago the marvellous civilization we
now admire as the mother Of our own.
Ancient Hamitc influences can be
traced all through Africa. In Abys-
sinia. In Gala. Somali, and IN Ma
sailand we find even now Hamitic Ian.
guages or at least Hamitic grammar
and Ha mitic types. In central Africa.
in the region OF the great lakes, we
have the Hima and Tusi. generally as
chiefs reigning over Bantu tribes. Of
ten with face and figure like those OF
the old pharaohs Of Egypt.
Physical Features Of Hamitie 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 a
pure Hamitic grammar. Also the pas
'toral habits of many Africa tribes,
their long horned cattle. spiral basket
work. ETC., are Hamitic. and all can
thus trace Hamitic influence from the
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