RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1858.04.12]. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary travels and researches in South Africa. CUL-DAR85.A93. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda, on the west coast: thence across the continent, from the river Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London. [Abstract in CUL-DAR205.11.2.78-80.]
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Livingstones Travels p. 624. "A great many of the Banzai are of a light Coffee-and-milk colour & indeed this colour is considered handsome throughout the whole country." Similar remark has been made before. These Banzai are Negros. Now here my sexual selection might come into play in altering black colour.
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