The Natural History of the Varieties of Man

by R. G. Latham

THE BIMBIA.

Locality.—The Lower Cameroons.

In the Bimbia country the low coast is at its minimum breadth, the foot of the Cameroons Mountain nearly reaching the sea.

CENTRAL NEGRO ATLANTIDÆ.

By following the course of the Niger, we are again brought in contact with the Mandingo area, i.e. with the northern portion of it. Hence, the populations which will now be noticed encompass and surround the Mandingo nations, much as the Mandingo nations encompassed and surrounded the Grebo and Avekvom tribes.

THE YARRIBA.

Locality.—The right and left(?) bank (banks) of the Niger to the back of the Ibo and Benin countries.

Area.—Borgho, Wawa, Boussa, Yaouri.

Religion.—Paganism.

Physical conformation.—Sub-typical Negroes.