. 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. PYG:\riES AXU POllEST XEGEOES 523 liide in tlie forests between the Saliara and the Zambezi watershed, and the other to range over the prairies, steppes, and deserts of Eastern and Southern Africa. I'erhaps
. 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. PYG:\riES AXU POllEST XEGEOES 523 liide in tlie forests between the Saliara and the Zambezi watershed, and the other to range over the prairies, steppes, and deserts of Eastern and Southern Africa. I'erhaps the forest Fvgmies of to-day are more nearly allied to the ^\'est African I!antu and Nile Negroes than they are to the Bnshnian-Hottentot group, which last is a section of the Negro sub-species somewhat clearly marked off and separated from other Negro races. :Many centuries ago these stunted little Negroes—of yellowish skin and somewhat hairy bodies, of large heads, and of noses not only Hat bat with the wings much develo[)ed, and rising as higli as the central cartilage of the nose—must have been tlie principal inlialiitaiits of the I'ganda Pro- tectorate, sharing these wide and varied territories of forest, swamp, steppe, and park-land with the prognathous ty[)e above descrilied. At the present. ^jM^ 2Sc. i;ami;i'I'K rvc^MiEs (to sai)W ATTi'miEs) day, however, the number of actual typical Pygmies existing in the I'ganda Protectorate is verv small, and tlieir range is probablv confined to a belt of forest lying to the east and west of the Semliki l;i\"er, and [lerhaps to the dense woods on the south-east shores of the Alhcrt Edward Lake. They are much more abundant in the (.'ougo Eree State, in whose forests they exist in a more or less undiluted ty[:e southwards to the \-erge of Angola, and north and north-west to the \iciiiity of the Pahr-al-( ihazal and the (ierman ("ameroons. This Pvgmv t\})e i- also found within the territory of tlie (rerman L'ameroons, an
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