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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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ly African, and wemay not well suppose that the peoplesspeaking them adopted in place of theiroriginal tongue the speech of the Hot-tentots. We must, therefore, concludethat the Zulus and the Kaffirs are froma truly African original, developed, how-ever, into much higher race characterthan are the tribes of the great andremote interior. A FRICA N NIGRITIA JVS. —Z UL U- KA FFIRS. 667 The Kaffirs have long- been known toEuropeans. The name is Arabic, andwas originally a term ofcontempt employed by theIslamites to describe allsavao-e infidels. The name Kaffir wastaken up first by the Dutch and after-wards by the English. Ethnically it has The name Kaffirplace and fea-tures ofthe race tics of the Central African Nigritians.First of all, the shape of the Kaffir headapproximates that of Europeans. Theprognathous face of the interior Africansgives place to a higher position of thefeatures in the Kaffir. The complexionalso departs much from the Africancolor, becoming among the better tribes
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KAFFIR HUT AND OSTRICH FARM. been extended until it now has a ge-neric force covering many local tribesand peoples. Thus the Bechuanas areregarded as a species of Kaffirs. The central seat of these peoples is inthe country southward of Delagoa bay.This is known as Kaffraria, or Kaffir-land. Here are found the typical tribesof the peoples so-called. It can not bedoubted that they depart by a considera-ble measure from the race characteris- a mahogany brown, with traces of yel-low or red, so distinct as to have ledmany travelers to suppose them to beof Arabian descent. In other particu-lars, however, the Nigritian character-istics wholly predominate. The hair isthe true African wool, and even thecomplexion in the poorer tribes gradesrapidly down to black. In the in-terior districts it is common to findKaffirs who would be immediately de- <;»;s GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. fined as Negroes by any Europeanobserver. The striking fact about the people un-der consideration is their superiorit

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