. 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 665 this kind are, like the bottle gourds, open at both ends, with a large blow-hole cut near the point of the horn. The bigger horns of this kind have their large apertures partially closed w
. 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 665 this kind are, like the bottle gourds, open at both ends, with a large blow-hole cut near the point of the horn. The bigger horns of this kind have their large apertures partially closed with skin. In the eastern part of Uganda and in Busoga pan-pipes are made out of the reeds that are suitable for flutes. The harp of Uganda is interesting because its identical form is re- peated in the paintings of ancient Egypt, where the instrument must have had its origin, reaching Uganda by way of the Nile, or by the roundabout route which ancient trade followed from Egypt to Somaliland and from Somaliland to Uganda. This type of Egyptian harp may also be noticed in the possession of the Sudan tribes along the Congo watershed and in the vicinity of the Niger, and I am not sure but what it does not turn up again in West Africa. The harp is constructed as follows: A curved, shallow basin of wood, in shape like the shell of a tortoise,* has a thin piece of sheep or antelope skin strained tightly over it. To one end of this basin or sounding-board is securely fixed a long, smooth, curved stem of wood, the skin being neatly fastened by some kind of glue all round the junction of this stem of the harp with the sounding-board. There are usually eight strings, which are strung from the turning-pegs along the stem to the opposite end of the sounding-board, where they are securely fastened. The turning-pegs tune the strings to the requisite note. The Baganda ha\e also a lyre of a kind very common in Negro Africa, and met with in many other countries besides Uganda. In this there is a
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