[126] Éléments d'Anthropologie Générale, p. 207.
[127] Rassenbildung u. Erblichkeit; Bastian-Festschrift, 1896, p. 1.
[128] From Gk. λεῖος, smooth, κῦμα, wave, οὐλος, fleecy, and θρίξ, τρῐχός, hair. J. Deniker (The Races of Man, 1900, p. 38) distinguishes four classes, the Australians, Nubians etc. being grouped as frizzy. He gives the corresponding terms in French and German:—straight, Fr. droit, lisse, Germ. straff, schlicht; wavy, Fr. ondé, Germ. wellig; frizzy, Fr. frisé, Germ. lockig; woolly, Fr. crépu, Germ. kraus.
CHAPTER III
THE AFRICAN NEGRO: I. SUDANESE
Conspectus—The Negro-Caucasic "Great Divide"—The Negro Domain—Negro Origins—Persistence of the Negro Type—Two Main Sections: Sudanese and Bantus—Contrasts and Analogies—Sudanese and Bantu Linguistic Areas—The "Drum Language"—West Sudanese Groups—The Wolofs: Primitive Speech and Pottery; Religious Notions—The Mandingans: Culture and Industries; History; the Guiné and Mali Empires—The Felups: Contrasts between the Inland and Coast Peoples; Felup Type and Mental Characters—Timni—African Freemasonry—The Sierra Leonese—Social Relations—The Liberians—The Krumen—The Upper Guinea Peoples—Table of the Gold Coast and Slave Coast Tribes—Ashanti Folklore—Fetishism; its true inwardness—Ancestry Worship and the "Customs"—The Benin Bronzes—The Mossi—African Agnostics—Central Sudanese—General Ethnical and Social Relations—The Songhai—Domain—Origins—Egyptian Theories—Songhai Records—The Hausas—Dominant Social Position—Speech and Mental Qualities—Origins—Kanembu; Kanuri; Baghirmi; Mosgu—Ethnical and Political Relations in the Chad Basin—The Aborigines—Islám and Heathendom—Slave-Hunting—Arboreal Strongholds—Mosgu Types and Contrasts—The Cultured Peoples of Central Sudan—Kanem-Bornu Records—Eastern Sudanese—Range of the Negro in Eastern Sudan—The Mabas—Ethnical Relations in Wadai—The Nubas—The Nubian Problem—Nubian Origins and Affinities—The Negro Peoples of the Nile-Congo Watersheds—Political Relations—Two Physical Types—The Dinka—Linguistic Groups—Mental Qualities—Cannibalism—The African Cannibal Zone—Arts and Industries—High Appreciation of Pictorial Art—Sense of Humour.
Conspectus of Sudanese Negroes.
Distribution in Past and Present Times.