. 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 581 to suffer from skin diseases, due possibly to poor food, much of their sustenance being derived from sorghum porridge and eleusine * (" ruimbi"). The Banyoho differ in -physical
. 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 581 to suffer from skin diseases, due possibly to poor food, much of their sustenance being derived from sorghum porridge and eleusine * (" ruimbi"). The Banyoho differ in -physical appearance from the Batoro, the Bakonjo, and the Bairo. This is due to a greater fundamental mixture in the past between thete negroes and Hamitic and Nilotic invaders of Unyoro. As a rule the Banyoro are rather nice-looking negroes, tall and well-proportioned, with faces which would be very pleasing were it not a custom amongst them (a custom which, as a rule, is not met with south of Unyoro proper) to extract the four lower incisors; this is a 2)ractice learnt, no doubt, from the neighbouring Nilotic tribes. As in- dividuals of both sexes grow old, their upper incisor teeth, having no opposition, grow long and project from the gum in a slanting manner, which gives the mouth an ugly hippo- potamine appearance. The Banyoro do oiot circumcise, nor are they as a rule given to ornamenting the skin by raising weals or cicatrises. On the whole it may be said that the Banyoro are not very dissimilar in ajopearance to the average in- habitant of Uganda, and, as will be seen in Chapter XX., there is a fairly close relationship between the Urunyoro and Luganda languages. They are oiot a naked peopAe, but wear much the same amount of clothing as is worn in Uganda, though the bark-cloth manufactured is inferior in quality, and a much ! larger proportion of the people wear skins. Both skins and bark-cloth however, are rapidly being replaced by the calico of India and America. It is, howeve
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