. 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. NILOTIC NEGROES 763 Bantu Negro stock, but which speaks in a slightly corrupted form a dialect closely allied to the language of the Suk, the Suk again being negroes near akin to the Masai, with a little le
. 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. NILOTIC NEGROES 763 Bantu Negro stock, but which speaks in a slightly corrupted form a dialect closely allied to the language of the Suk, the Suk again being negroes near akin to the Masai, with a little less Hamitic blood in their veins. The unwritten history of the present distribution of these tribes and forms of speech, and of the race movements which brought about the existing mixture of peoples, may be something like this : Imagine Negro Nileland to have been peopled at one time by the Pygmy-Prognathous group in the territories now comprised in the Uganda Protectorate, and perhaps by a kindred race of stunted stature — the ancestors of the Hottentots and Bushmen— ' ' away to the east in what is now British East Africa.* Into these regions came pouring some i ' three thousand years ago a horde of West African Negroes speaking the mother-tongue of the Bantu languages. The Bantu possibly came from the north-west, from the region along the water-parting between the Congo and the Nile systems. The rush of the Bantu carried them not only all over the basin of the Upper Nile and "Victoria Nyanza, but they streamed away south-south-east towards the coast of the Indian Ocean. From the north- east, Hamitic people, of Caucasian stock tinged with the Negro, trickled down slowly into the northern territories of the Uganda Protectorate. At one time, no doubt, these Hamites had only a scattered population of Bantu (the Bantu having previously absorbed the antecedent Congo Pygmies) to deal with. They were received with reverence by these then savage West African Negroes (the Bantu
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