CHANGING THE ETHIOPIAN.
Tho negro typo, tho "Forum" asserts, is gradually relinquishing its darker bodily shade and coming into a j rarer and more Caucasian colour. There ! are negroes, and an increasingly growI ing number of them, whceo colour is not far removed from tho average Caucasian of iSoutherii Europe or Western 1 Asia. Many of thorn in truth might be I taken for Orientals of the darker Italian or Spanish types. The only reasonablo ' hypothesis is—the amalgamation of the , negro with the Caucasian. It alono j can account for the gradual change in the frontal development of tho head, I tho gradual thinning of tho lips, tho I gradual contraction of tho nostrils, and tho gradual change in the torture of the hair, receding from its primitive curly state to tho straight, black, coarse hair of the South Asiatic, the ' Malay, or Island type. This is iso emphatically striking that attention . only need be called to the fact.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14162, 30 September 1911, Page 9
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