[218] Schweinfurth, op. cit. II. p. 93.
[219] G. Elliot Smith denies that cannibalism occurred in Ancient Egypt, The Ancient Egyptians, 1911, p. 48.
[220] Africa, 1895, Vol. II. p. 58. In a carefully prepared monograph on "Endocannibalismus," Vienna, 1896, Dr Rudolf S. Steinmetz brings together a great body of evidence tending to show "dass eine hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit dafür spricht den Endocannibalismus (indigenous anthropophagy) als ständige Sitte der Urmenschen, sowie der niedrigen Wilden anzunehmen" (pp. 59, 60). It is surprising to learn from the ill-starred Bòttego-Grixoni expedition of 1892-3 that anthropophagy is still rife even in Gallaland, and amongst the white ("floridi") Cormoso Gallas. Like the Fans, these prefer the meat "high," and it would appear that all the dead are eaten. Hence in their country Bòttego found no graves, and one of his native guides explained that "questa gente seppellisce i suoi cari nel ventre, invece che nella terra," i.e. these people bury their dear ones in their stomach instead of in the ground. Vittorio Bòttego, Viaggi di Scoperta, etc. Rome, 1895.
[221] I. p. 245.
[222] II. p. 140.
CHAPTER IV
THE AFRICAN NEGRO: II. BANTUS—NEGRILLOES—BUSHMEN—HOTTENTOTS
The Sudanese-Bantu Divide—Frontier Tribes—The Bonjo Cannibals—The Baya Nation—A "Red People"—The North-East Door to Bantuland—Semitic Elements of the Bantu Amalgam—Malay Elements in Madagascar only—Hamitic Element everywhere—The Ba-Hima—Pastoral and Agricultural Clans—The Bantus mainly a Negro-Hamitic Cross—Date of Bantu Migration—The Lacustrians—Their Traditions—The Kintu Legend—The Ba-Ganda, Past and Present—Political and Social Institutions—Totemic System—Bantu Peoples between Lake Victoria and the Coast—The Wa-Giryama—Primitive Ancestry-Worship—Mulungu—The Wa-Swahili—The Zang Empire—The Zulu-Xosas—Former and Present Domain—Patriarchal Institutions—Genealogies—Physical Type—Social Organisation—"Common Law"—Ma-Shonas and Ma-Kalakas—The mythical Monomotapa Empire—The Zimbabwe Ruins—The Be-Chuanas—The Ba-Rotse Empire—The Ma-Kololo Episode—Spread of Christianity amongst the Southern Bantus—King Khama—The Ova-Herero—Cattle and Hill Damaras—The Kongo People—Old Kongo Empire—The Kongo Language—The Kongo Aborigines—Perverted Christian Doctrines—The Kabindas and "Black Jews"—The Ba-Shilange Bhang-smokers—The Ba-Lolo "Men of Iron"—The West Equatorial Bantus—Ba-Kalai—The Cannibal Fans—Migrations, Type, Origin—The Camerun Bantus—Bantu-Sudanese Borderland—Early Bantu Migrations—Eastern Ancestry and Western Nature-worshippers—Conclusion—Vaalpens—Strandloopers—Negrilloes—Negrilloes at the Courts of the Pharaohs—Negrilloes and Pygmy Folklore—The Dume and Doko reputed Dwarfs—The Wandorobbo Hunters—The Wochua Mimics—The Bushmen and Hottentots—Former and Present Range—The Wa-Sandawi—Hottentot Geographical Names in Bantuland— Hottentots disappearing—Bushman Folklore Literature—Bushman-Hottentot Language and Clicks—Bushman Mental Characters—Bushman Race-Names.