The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-03-28
ORIGIN
OF EGYPTIANS
Evidence That They Are Of the
HamHk Line.
VIEWS OF DR. Won tusCHAh

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Migration and Colonization Chief
1 Among Many Causes Given For
AmaIsamation Of Primitive Races.
Anthropolosy Of African and Pacific
Islanders Pointed Out.
RxJOHMsE. Bruce GRIT.
| A great many modern writer's aud
not q. few who wrote inYanf earlier Pc,
nod are disposed to discredit the, Afri-
can origin OF the Egyptians. although
their color. customs and other phys.
lcal characteristics clearly indica te that
II any race Of people on earth came out
/ Of the loins of Ham these did.
H Nothing seems to be more certain to
those who have studied the question
closely. Dc. Felix Won Luschan, pro-
fessor Of anthsopology In the Univer-
aity OF Berlin. In an admirable paper
before the 6rst universal races con-
L gress. 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 mem who have Investigated
this subject.
While we know or have been told
that all the Egyptiansl are not white
o. brown. or Of any of the intermedi-
ate colorss between white and black.
we also know from those who have
Travelled in that country that the ma
jorfty Of IT'S Inhabitants are black and
possess all the physical characteristics
% the African.
Cause Of Distinct colsr vsristiss.
| The color Of the Egyptian results,
tAerefese, from the admixture Of the
blood Of Deigtboring races with the
African blood of these indigenous
hlaeka Professor Won Luschan says:
"While the frst varieties Of primitive
man were certainly formed and fixed
By long isolation, later variations and
faces were caused by migration and
colonization, as might perhaps best be
sHOwn BY sketchfng the anthropoiegy
oGAfricaA and the Pacific islands.
Just as Madagascar was peopled
about 600 or 1O00oA-, d. BY Indoresian
colonists coming from Sumatra. so IN
told. ages ago the FIRST 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 we may 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 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 q real Negro. He
exists In two varieties-a tall variety
like the modern Nigritian from the
coast Of upper Guinea and q small
one like the bushmen snd the pygmies,
now known In 90 many places In CEN
tral Africa.
Third Race Makes its Appearances.
But I have already stated that We
area as yet quite ignorant Of the real
home Of these small races. To these
two oldest elements In Africa was add
Cd ages afterward. but still In prehis-
toric times, q third one, the Hamitic.
} It b. descended from the same ancient
Gibraltar-Australia line, but was In q
higher stage Of civilization.
These Hamites had already q greatly
refined language, with an admirable
grammar closely related to that Of the
ssmltie and Indo- Germanic languages
In Egypt they created more than 1900
.ysarn ago tina 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
sailand We nnd even now Hamitic Ian.
guages or at least Hamitic grammar
and Hamitic types. In central Africa.
10 the region Of the great lakes, we
have the Hima and Tust generally as
GuIok0 EcIBuiuB ONOI Duntu SkADOc, Va
teR with faee and figure HE those o.
he old pharaoAs Or Rgypt
Physical Features Of HanitIe Type.
Evens n South Africa nearly I per
cent of the actual Bantu population
have high and narrow noses. thin lips
and Hne iarge orthognathfe skulls
Of the Hamitic type. and all the Hot.
.tentot languages and dialects have o
sure Han1ftie 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 inHnsncs from the
Hile to the Cape Of Good Hope.
sui there are some Negroes and