. 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 NEGEOES 769 races between the Hamite and the Nile Negro, between the Hamite and the Bantu, and a few Bantu races who are either very much under the. 416. MADI W05IEX AT THEIE HAIK-DKESSING. influenc
. 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 NEGEOES 769 races between the Hamite and the Nile Negro, between the Hamite and the Bantu, and a few Bantu races who are either very much under the. 416. MADI W05IEX AT THEIE HAIK-DKESSING. influence of neighbouring Masai or Gala tribes or have still retained in South Central Africa the impress of Bahima customs.* In their own homes in the depth of the forest the Dwarfs are said to neglect coverings for decency in the men as in the women, but certainly when they emerge from the forest into the villages of the agricultural Negroes they are always observed to be wearing some small piece of bark- cloth or skin or a bunch of leaves over the pudenda. Elsewhere in all * The only Bantu tribes which formerly were, or at the present day are, without feelings of shame in regard to the exposure of the person in the male are the A-kamba, A-kikuyu, Wa-chaga, and other tribes in British East Africa living in close relations with the JIasai or the Gala ; the Kavirondo, Avho were similarly influenced by the Nile Negroes ; the Bakonjo of Euwenzori, who- in this may have copied the Hima customs; the Barundi of North Tanganyika likewise ; the Nkonde tribes of the north end of Lake Nyasa ; the JNlashukulumbwe and Batonga of the Central Zambezi; and the Zulus of South and South Central Africa. In the case of all the Bantu tribes mentioned, except those of North Nyasa, Central Zambezi, and Zulu- land, it is easy to understand how this preference for nudity on the part of the male may have arisen from contact with Nilotic, Masai, or Hapiitio customs. It is less easy for the same theory to expla
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