. 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. PYGMIES AND FOEEST NEGROES 539 They have practically no religion, and no trace of spirit- or ancestor- worship. They have some idea that thunder, light- ning, and rain are the manifestations of aPower, an E
. 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. PYGMIES AND FOEEST NEGROES 539 They have practically no religion, and no trace of spirit- or ancestor- worship. They have some idea that thunder, light- ning, and rain are the manifestations of aPower, an Entity in the heavens', but a bad Power; and when (reluctantly) in- duced to talk on the subject, they shake their heads and clack their tongues in disapproval, for the mysterious Some- thing in the heavens occasionally slays their comrades with his iire (lightning). They have little or no belief in a life after death, but sometimes think vaguely that their dead relations live again in the form of the red bush-pig, whose strange bristles are among the few brightly coloured objects that at- tract their attention. They have no settled government or hereditary chief, merely clustering round an able hunter or cunning fighter, and accepting him as law-giver for the time. Marriage is only the purchase of a girl from her father; polygamy depends on the extent of their barter goods,* but there is, nevertheless, much attachment between husband and wife, and they appear to be very fond of their children. Women generally give birth to their offspring in the forest, severing the navel string with their teeth, and burying the placenta in the ground. The dead are usually buried in dug graves, and if men of any importance, food, tobacco, and weapons are buried with the corpse. * Such as honey, skins, arrow-heads, 295 A PYGMT OHIEl' AXD HIS BEOTHBR (BAMBUTE). (THE CHlEff IS THE ISDIVIDUAL OX THE LEFT, AXD IS S TEET I IXCH IN HEIGHT). Please note that these images are extracted from sc
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