Physical conformation.—Modified Negro.
Language.—Prefixional and alliterational.
Area.—Western, Central(?), and Eastern Africa, from the north of the Equator to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Chief divisions.—1. Western. 2. Southern Kaffres. 3. Eastern Kaffres.
That there is no broad line between the Kaffre and non-Kaffre Africans, on the western side of Africa at least, is shown by the following populations; whereof both the languages, as known by vocabularies, and the physical conformations are intermediate or transitional.
1.
WESTERN KAFFRES.
Beginning with the parts south of the Bimbia area we have between the river of that name and the Portuguese kingdom of Loango—
THE BATANGAS.
Native name.—Bânâka.
Locality.—Sea-coast of Western Africa 3° north latitude, half way between the Camaroons and Gaboon.