. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. BANTU NEGROES 71^ the back of the head on the third rung, while the second bar serves as a support to the back. The articles of diet of the Basoga are slightly more varied than amongst the Baganda. In addit
. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. BANTU NEGROES 71^ the back of the head on the third rung, while the second bar serves as a support to the back. The articles of diet of the Basoga are slightly more varied than amongst the Baganda. In addition to the banana, which is the favourite food of those who dwell anywhere near the Victoria Nyanza, the country grows the sweet potato, ground- nut, two or three kinds of beans, eleusine, and sorghum. The grain of the sorghum and eleusine cereals is principally used for making beer. Tobacco is grown of excellent quality. The sugar- cane is cultivated, and its stalks are used for the sake of its sweet juice, but no sugar is made from it. The people also grow a few yams and some sesamum, or oil-seed. They gather co'ffee from the wild bushes in the forest, and in parts of the country the cotton-plant is cultivated, though I have not been able to ascertain that they spin this into thread. As domestic ctnimcds they keep cattle of the humped, short- horned type, small fat-tailed sheep, goats, and fowls. The goat seen in Busoga is often of the long-haired, " Skye-terrier" type, already mentioned as coming from the regions to the west of the Upper Nile. The natives nowadays catch and tame the young of the grey parrot for sale to European or Swahili caravans. The people keep dogs, and some- times use them for hunting. There is nothing remarkable about their viarriage ceremonies. The wife is simply purchased from her father by a present of live-stock, together with a few iron hoes, and perhajjs two or three pots of beer. Amongst the peasants a wife may be purchased for a goat.
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