ABSTRACT
T HE term Bushmen (Boschimanner) was given in the seventeenth century by the Dutch settlers to the diminutive hunting peoples with whom they early came in contact in South Africa. In appearance they show many points of resemblance to the negritoes that we have been concerned with in the previous chapter. They are of similar stature and have negroid facial features, but they lack the projecting mouth, thick everted lips, and wide-open eyes characteristic of both negro and negrito. One of their most well-known physical peculiarities is the tendency, especially among women, to steatopygy, i.e. the excessive development of fatty tissue on the buttocks. As a race they are sufficiently distinctive to make it doubtful whether they can be closely related to the negrito pygmies, except in so far as both are variants of a common stock, most numerously represented by the larger negroes.
