. 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. 611 BANTU NEGROES Speke and Stanley always write the name " Huma," and this appears to he the variant common in Unyoro, though the pre- sent writer is obliged to confess he has never heard any one
. 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. 611 BANTU NEGROES Speke and Stanley always write the name " Huma," and this appears to he the variant common in Unyoro, though the pre- sent writer is obliged to confess he has never heard any one speak of " ; (It is (juite incorrect- to write " Wa- huma," as is done by the earlier explorers, be- cause " Wa-" is only the degfenerate Swahili form of the plural prefix "Ba-/' which is used almost throughout the *-Bantu provinces of the Uganda Protectorate.) Speke states that the Hima aristocracy in Unyoro styled themselves the " Bawitu " '* (" -witu " being the root of this name). In Karagwe, and as far to the south-east as the Businja country on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza, the local name given to the Hamitic aristocracy is 'â Bahinda " or " Haruhinda " (the root being '--hinda-'). Descendants of the same race are said to go by the name of 'â Batusi" in the vicinity of Tanganyika. Lieutenant Paul KoUmann, who wrote an excellent book on the Victoria Nyanza some three years ago, states that the " Rahinda" were a tribe of Hamitic descent indepiendent of the Bahima, and only one among several tribes of Gala origin which invaded the western })arts of the Uganda Protectorate in ancient times. As already mentioned, in Unycro the traditional name of these Hamitic invaders is " Bachwezi.'" (The root would be ' ;) In Ankole, which has long been the nucleus of the * George Wilson writes this more correctly " Babitu," and gives a legendary origin to the
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