The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-03-28
AFRICAN ORIGIN
OF EGYPTIANS
Evidence That They Ire Of the
\ RanIie line
VIEWS Of DR. Won tusCHlh

VIEWS Of R Won tUSCHAk
Migration and Colonization Chief
L Among Many Causes Given For
Amafsamation Of Primitive Raess.
Anthropolosy Of African and Pacific
lslandsrs Pointed out.
/ RwJOtaNsE. sRncE tCRIT,.,
4 great many, modern writer's aud.
nat a. few who wrote imam earlier pe-,
riod are disposed to discredit the Afri-,
0n origin OF the EgyptianA. although
their color; customs and other phys
ical characteristics clearly indicate that
if any race Of people on earth, came out
I of the loins Of Ham these did.
Nothing seems to be more certain to
those who have studied the question
/ clesely. Do. Felix vons Luschan, pro-
fsssor Of anthsopoiogy inithe Uniyeg-
/ aify of Beriins In an admirable paper,
before- the frst universai races con-
Egress. which, met In London In 1911.
approaches the subject with more can
dor and honesty than usually charac-
tsrize the writings or the utterances
of white Msn- who have Investigated
this subject y
While we know or have BEEN told
that, al thes Egyptiansl areI not white
erI brown. or, OF any Of the intermedf
ats~ colorss between white and black.
we also know from those who have
travelled In that country that the ma
jorfty of'fts Inhabitants are black and
possess all the physical characteristics
0e the African.
Cause Of Distinct colsr vsrissisa .
| The color Of the Egyptian results
snerefsss, from the admixtnrv Of the
blood Of Deighbsrtng races with the
AFRICAN blood of these indigenous
hlaekA Professor Won Luschanr says:
"Whila the first varieties Of primitive
man were certainly formed and 6xed
by long isolation, later variations and
races were caused by migration and
colonization. as might perhaps best be
DlOwu By sifetchfng the anthropoiogy
Afr1cal and tine Pacific islands.
Just az Madagascar was peopled
about 600 or lO00oA.I d. By Indoresian
celonists canning, from Sumatra. 30 un,
tolde ayes ago the. hrst. inhabitants OF
Africa came from a place, somewhere
In southern Asia on the great line from
Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or
skeletons Of these earliest Africansare
as yet known. but wetmay hope to find
them sooner or later, as we already
now know a good many sites, Of paleo-
Hthic implements In various parts OF
tropical and southern Africa.
The anatomical qualities Of these
first Africans VIII certainly be found
10 dif1er from those Of aboriginal Aus
tralians, but IN tens Of hundreds Of
thousands OF years the paleolithic A.
rican evolved into q real Negro. He
exists In two varieties--a tall variety
like the modern Nigritian from the
coast Of upper Guinea and a small
one like the bushmen, snd the pygmies,
now known in 20 many places IN cen.
tral Africa.
Third Race Makes its Appearance.
But I have already stated that We
arW as yet quite ignorant of the rsai
homo Of these small races To these
two oldest elements IN Africa was add
Cd ages afterward. but stiTl In prehis.
toric times, q third one, the Hamitic.
It ~ descended from the same ancient
Gibraltar-Australia line, but was In q
higher stage Of civilization.
These Hamites had already greatly
refined language, with an admirable
grammar closely related to that Of the
Semltic and Indo- -Germanie languages
In Egypt they created more than 1000
,ysarn ago tina maTvelous civilisationws
now admires as the. mother Of our own.
Ancient Hamitic influences can be
traced all through Africa. In Abys.
stnia, IN Gala. Somali, and In Ma
sailand We Ind even now Hamidc Inn
guages or at least Hamit1c grammar
and Hamitic types. In central Africa.
in the region Of the great lakes, we
have the Hima and Tust gsuesaliy as
chiefs reiyuing over bantu u1DeS, Of
ses With fsee and 'Ggure- iike those. o.
ne old phara0As Or Hgypt
Physical Fsaturss Of HamitIo Type.
Hvess % South Africa nsariy I Per
cent Of the actual Bantu population
have high and narrow noses. thin lips
and flne large 0rthognatiIfc skulls
Of the Hamitie types and ail the Hot.
,tentot languages and dialects have q
Dure Hsnntie snmnsr. Also the pas,
toral habits Of many Africa tribes.
their long horned caftte. spirai basket
work. ETC.. are Hamitic. and all can
thuse etEaes Hamittc inansnce from The
Hile to the Cape Of Good Hope.
sui there are some Negroes and