. 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. 530 PYGMIES AND EOREST NEGROES to an ordinary under-sized negro, but wherever this broad, large-wiuged nose is seen, the individual possessing it either belongs to the Pygmy-Prognathous group by birth, or i
. 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. 530 PYGMIES AND EOREST NEGROES to an ordinary under-sized negro, but wherever this broad, large-wiuged nose is seen, the individual possessing it either belongs to the Pygmy-Prognathous group by birth, or is a member of a superior negro tribe, reverting by atavism to this jirimitive stock. Another marked feature of the Pygmy- Prognathous negroes is the long upper lip, a distinctly simian char- acter. The upper lip is not largely everted, as in the ordinary negro, nor is the lower lip perhaps quite so much turned outwards, to show- its inner mucous surface. The mouth is large and ape-like, the chin weak and receding, the neck is ordinarily short and weak. It has been men- tioned that the hair of the head is of the closely curled Negro type, but a curious feature in many of these Pygrnies (a feature, so far as I am aware, confined to the yellow-skinned type) is the tendency on the part of the head-hair to be reddish, more especially over the frontal part of the head. In all the red or yellow-skinned types of Pygmies which I have seen, I have never observed head-hair which was absolutely black; it varies in colour between greyish greenish brown and reddish. This is illustrated in my coloured drawing of two Pygmies. In the blacker type of Pygmy the buttocks sometimes attain considerable development and prominence, recalling, in a slight-degree, a feature which is pushed to an extraordinary exaggeration in the Hottentot-Bushmen race. 287. TWO BAMBUTE PYGMIES. (THE FIGURE ON THE LEFT IS'tHE ONE WHO DIED IN UGANDA IN MARCH, Igoo, .AND WHOSE SKELETON IS DESCRIBED ON r. 559). Please note
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