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“The Elamites of Mesopotamia appear to have been a negroid people with kinky hair, and to have transmitted this racial type to the Jews and Syrians.1 There is a curliness of the hair, together with a negro eye and full lips, in the portraiture of Assyria which conveys the idea of an evident negro element in Babylonia. Quite probably the very ancient negro invasion of Mediterranean Europe (of which the skeletons of the Alpes Maritimes are vestiges) came from Syria and Asia Minor on its way to Central and Western Europe.
It is possible that in or on the verge of Arabia the ancient basal stock of the generalised negro parted, divided into two great streams of divergent emigration : one to proceed to Europe via Syria, and the other to pass through Arabia- to Egypt’ and tropical Africa. In Arabia or in Egypt (it may be) arose the difference between the long-headed African negro and the rounder, shorter-headed Bushman, the last-named becoming more habituated than his congeners to a life in arid deserts or scrubby, open country.”
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1 The Jews are composed of three or four separate racial elements. The Asiatic negroid strain shows itself occasionally in the curly hair, the long eye, and proportions of the skull. The Jewish hybrids with the Negro in Jamaica and Guiana reproduce most strikingly the Assyrian type {supra).
2 It is quite conceivable that the great peninsula of Arabia was once populated, as far as its natural conditions allowed, by a primitive negro stock, which may have been later on partially exterminated by changing and unfavourable conditions of climate and by the after-coming of the white man in his types
