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Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e Soudan :—Much mixed with Arabs and Hamites 18,000,000Mahometan Negroes op the Soudan :— Darfur. Sokoto. Gando . Haussas Bornu . Baghirmi Wadai .Northern Tropical Negroes (Non-Mahometan)Southern Tropical Negroes :—Chiefly BantuSouthern Bantu:— Kaffirs Zulus ..... Bechuanas . . . . Damaras, etc.Hottentots :—South Africa; much lighter in complexion thai > 35,000,000 35,000,00030,000,000 10,000,000 n most NegroesBushmen :—South Africa; diminutive in size and of low intelligenceNegrillos (Akkas, Obongos, Batwas etc.) 100,0005,000100,000 Total 128,205,000 MONGOLOIDS. Malays :—Madagascar, Hovas, etc 2,500,000 Turks :—Egypt,etc 100,000 Total African jpopulation about 187,000,000 CHAPTEE XII. rriHE animal life of Africa is more uniform than that of any other con- -L tinent, probably owing to the fact that nearly the whole of it is comprised within the tropics. Here, as if in correspondence with the human population, we find a large proportion of the most savage, the orerro
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AFRICA. (The numbers on the Map show some of the regions frequented by the various animals.) most powerful, and the most ugly forms of animal life. Large tracts of it,however, because of their desert character, have but few animals ; someregions are but imperfectly known as yet. Among the great group of Primates (apes, monkeys, and lemurs) wefind ni Africa the most man-like and fierce, and the most repulsive. TheG-orilla (17) and Chimpanzee (18), of equatorial Africa, had long been 687 688 AFRICAN ANIMALS. dimly known from travellers tales and negro superstitions ; but only inrecent years have skeletons been procured and individuals brought to Europe and keptalive for shortperiods. It wasformerly believedby some negroesthat they werehuman beingsdegenerated ; byothers, that theywere the spiritsof deceased menembodied. Wenow know thatthey are extremeforms of the samegroup as apes andmonkeys. The Gorilla is above mans stature, and can readily assume the erect posture.His diet is mixed, b

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