British Central Africa : an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence, north of the Zambesi (1897)
Johnston, Harry, 1858-1927 · New York : Arnold · leaf 446
but not as tightly curled as the hair on the head. Among these negroes of Central Africa, as among almost all the true black negroes, the hair grows evenly over the scalp and not in sparse separate tufts as in the Bushman-Hottentots. This style of growth, which the French call floconne , is well… … times it has occurred even to myself to ask, AN ANGONI FROM MOMBERA’S COUNTRY looking at some youth, “ Is it a man or a woman?” — so woman-like would be the well-developed mamma which yet seemed inconsistent with the very straight shoulders and small hips. But with this exception there is nothing…
Natural history
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