. 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. 548 PYGMIES AND POREST NEGROES. people who dwell to the north-west of the north end of Tanganyika, in that part of the Congo Forest which lies to the west of the Kuanda couirtry. Possibly the real Balega on
. 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. 548 PYGMIES AND POREST NEGROES. people who dwell to the north-west of the north end of Tanganyika, in that part of the Congo Forest which lies to the west of the Kuanda couirtry. Possibly the real Balega once halted in one of their migra- tions at the south end of Lake Albert, and a remnant of them which was conquered by the invading Lendu has per- petuated its name though it has lost the use of a Bantu language. The Lendu as a race have come into rather pro- minent notice lately, because they became to a great extent enslaved by the soldiers of Em in Pasha's Equatorial Pro- vince when these Sudanese were driven by the Madhist invasion of the equatorial Nile re- gions to take refuge in the wild countries to the west of Lake Albert; and when the Sudanese were transferred to L^ganda by Captain Lugard they brought witli them hundreds of Lendu followers, who now form thriving colonies At ]Mengo and Entebbe. Like almost all races in this part of Africa, the migration of the Lendu has been more or less from north to south. Emin Pasha used to express the opinion that the Lendu had come from the north-east, and were the original inhabitants of Unyoro, having been ejected from •that country and dri\en beyond the Albert Nyanza by the subsequent. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. London, Hutchinson & Co.
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