. 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 FOREST XEGROES 559 groups. These have now alisorlied almost all the antecedent population except the Pygmies, and have imposed on the ma>s of the forest peo[ile more or less degraded Bantu di
. 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 FOREST XEGROES 559 groups. These have now alisorlied almost all the antecedent population except the Pygmies, and have imposed on the ma>s of the forest peo[ile more or less degraded Bantu dialects, and two other languages, the l^endu and the Mhuba-Momfu, of uncertain affinities, but possibly derived from the same stock as the Madi in the western Nile basin. ON THE SKELETON OF A BAMBUTE EKOM THE FOREST, UOAXDA BORDERLAND. T'.Y FKANK ('. SHRUESALL, , '., Fklliiw of j'llE ANTHKuroijiiMCAL l»rnrTE. The skeleton of the Bamhute Pysiiiy from the forest zone on the frontier V>etween the Ugan da Protectorate and the Congo Fiee State is of great ni- terest owing to the paucity of osteolo- gical material from that district. U]! to the present our in- formation is chiefly based on two Akka .skeletons sent to the I'yritish iSIuseum l>y ])r. Fmin I'asha in 1888, and fully de- scribed by the late Sir William Flower in the JournnI / the Anthro'pologiad Institute, vol. xviii. These skeletons were unfortunately im- jierfect, whereas that recently jiresented to the Museum by Sir H. H. .Tohnstdu is jiractically jierfcct, a few small bones of the hands and feet alone being missing. Though the llambute skcletim differs in some ile- gree from the Akkas, it is best studied in relation li> ihi' for- mer siieciiiieiis, the details of whieh ale. AX jiiaTE i'V.;siY (jr the vltek ituhi. (this is the inoividcal ttllosK SKELETON' IS HEHE DESCKIIiEO). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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