[175] Dr. Adamson's speech, at the Wesleyan Missionary Meeting, in 1846.—Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. i. No. 4.
[176] Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. i. No. 4.
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HOTTENTOT ATLANTIDÆ.
The Hottentot stock has a better claim to be considered as forming a second species of the genus Homo than any other section of mankind. It can be shown, however, that the language is no more different from those of the world in general than they are from each other.
THE HOTTENTOT ATLANTIDÆ.
Area. The southern extremity of Africa. Encroached upon by a. the Kaffres; b. the Dutch and English of the Cape.
Divisions. 1. The Hottentots. 2. The Saabs.
Physical conformation. Stature, low; limbs, slight; colour, more brown or yellow than black (that of new-born children said to be nearly white); cheek-bones, prominent; nasal profile, depressed; hair, in tufts rather than equally distributed over the head.—Thus described by Barrow: "It does not cover the whole surface of the scalp, but grows in small tufts, at certain distances from each other, and when clipped short, has the appearance and feel of a hard shoe-brush, except that it is curled and twisted into small, round lumps, about the size of a marrow-fat pea. When suffered to grow, it hangs on the neck in hard, twisted tassels, like a fringe."[177]—Eyes, oblique; vision, acute; cranium, Mongoliform with wide orbits, brakhykephalic, nasal profile extremely flat, broad at the root; and the chin, long, forward, and thin.