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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ate. Another race which has in like man-ner been modified by foreign influenceis the Kaffirs. These belong to Kaffra-ria Proper, Xatal, Zululand, the Trans-vaal, the Orange Free State, etc. Thename Kaffir used in this The Kaffirs alsoethnical sense is of larger %«*£>**significance than that of Fulah nations.Hottentot, Bechuan, Congo, Bunda, orany other of the regions below the 636 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. equatorial line. The term Kaffir .shouldproperly be enlarged into a genericsense, covering as its species all the racesjust referred to by name and manyothers of Southwestern Africa. Kaffir,as a designative, is collateral with Fu-lah, Bantu, and the like, both of whichwords express genera of the Central coast and the upper tributaries of theWhite Nile. We here refer to the Kaffirs only forpurposes of proper classification. Theyare a subvariety of the universal Nieri-tian family, collateral with the Bantuand the Fulah. Nearly all the peoplesso designated, that is, all who bear the
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MAX, WOMAN, AND GIRL OF NAMAQUA—TYPES.—From Naturkunde. African and South African races. Ofthe Kaffirs, it may be said that all racesso designated are the descendants andremotest dispersion of the Bantu na-tions occupying the region of the GreatNyanzas. The term Sudan, or Sudanese,is still wider than Fulah, Kaffir, Bantu,and the like. The first may properlybe employed to designate all the Cen-tral African races between the Atlantic Kaffir name, have been largely modifiedby the coming of foreigners to the westcoast, their settlement there, and theirinfluence over the natives. The effectsof the foreign contact are plainlv discov-erable in the ethnic result. Not onlythe Hottentots, but other subspecies ofKaffirs as well, show in their presentphysical and mental constitution the re-sults of race-touch from abroad. A FRICA N NIGRITIA NS. —E THNIC CLA SSIFICA TION. 637 This influence has been augmentedby the forces of environment. Through-The Kaffir char- out Kaffraria we are com-So i

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