. 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. PYGMIES AND EOHEST NEGEOES 547 affinities between the Lendu and the Mbuba languages and any other well-known group of African tongues. On the whole, perhaps, they are more connected with the Madi group than
. 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. PYGMIES AND EOHEST NEGEOES 547 affinities between the Lendu and the Mbuba languages and any other well-known group of African tongues. On the whole, perhaps, they are more connected with the Madi group than any other. Physically speaking, both tribes offer some diversity of type. Amongst the Lendu one occasionally sees individuals with almost Hamitic physiognomy, due, no doubt, to mixture with the Banyoro on the opposite side of the Albert Nyanza. Others, again, among the Lendu offer a physical type resembling the Pygmies and the Banande. There is considerable correspondence in body measurements between the Lendu people and the Pygmy-Prognathous group. On the whole, however, the faces met with amongst the Lendu. 302. DWAKl'S GIVING A MUSICAL PEEFOBMANOE SEATED are more pleasing than among the other forest tribes. The Lendu inhabit the country which lies to the west of the southern half of Lake Albert. This country is mainly grassy upland, but part of it where the land slopes towards the Congo basin is covered with dense forest, and in many of their affinities, physical and ethnological, the Lendu are more closely aUied to the forest tribes than to the people of the Nile Valley. Their neighbours in this direction are the Alulu, or Aluru, who will be treated of in that section of the book dealing with the Nilotic Negroes. To the south the Lendu go by the name of " Lega," or " ; Why this name should be given to or assumed by them in the Upper Selmliki Valley I have not been able to ascertain. It is the name belonging to a tribe of Bantu-speaking. Please no
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