. 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 NEGEOES 721 ritalwart sons, each of wliom has become the father of a large family; so that Luba, when he dies, will probably be the progenitor of a thousand children. Another old chief of Nilotic race
. 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 NEGEOES 721 ritalwart sons, each of wliom has become the father of a large family; so that Luba, when he dies, will probably be the progenitor of a thousand children. Another old chief of Nilotic race in the north, Liada, is now past ninety, and is said to have been the father of a thousand children, more or less. It has been, in fact, very much the custom in Busoga for the chiefs—who, being at all times well nourished, were well suited to be '•sires"—to impress all the young women of the district into,their harims. After a girl had borne one or two children the chief would marry her off to his dependents or to his elder sons. Among the peasants infant mortality is teiiible. It is rare that a peasant woman succeeds in rearing more than one child. The influence of the two missionary societies in Busoga is restraining the excessive polygamy of the chiefs, and the better conditions of life among the common people which now prevail under the European control of the country, are together equalising the production of children, and will no doubt tend in time to a marked increase in the 382. AN ALBINO CHILD IN EUSOGA. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. London, Hutchinson & Co.
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