Professor Retzius, in his _Smithsonian Report_, considers that theprimitive dolichocephalae of America are nearly related to the Guanchesof the Canary Islands, and to the population on the Atlantic seaboard ofAfrica, which Latham comprises under the name of Egyptian-Atlantidae.

Thesame form of skull is found in the Canary Islands off the African coastand the Carib Islands off the American coast, while the colour of theskin in both is that of a reddish-brown.

The ancient Egyptians depicted themselves as red men of much the samecomplexion as exists to-day among some tribes of American Indians.

"The ancient Peruvians," says Short, "appear from numerous examples ofhair found in their tombs to have been an auburn-haired race."