. 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. 77G XILOTIC NEGUOES. 423. GKOUND PLAN OF AN ACHOLI HOUSE low order of architecture, with interior arrangements showing no attempt at comfort or order- liness. The Acholi always make beds of skins on the top
. 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. 77G XILOTIC NEGUOES. 423. GKOUND PLAN OF AN ACHOLI HOUSE low order of architecture, with interior arrangements showing no attempt at comfort or order- liness. The Acholi always make beds of skins on the top of the raised sleeping platform, but the Bari frequently sleep on the bare mud. Nearly all the N'ile villages are surrounded by thorn hedges. In the Lango and Acholi countries there is a good deal of stockading with stout poles. The j\ladi clig a deep trench round their villages, throwing up the earth on the inner side into a parapet. All along the top of this parapet is planted a stout stockade of poles. Outside the Madi villages there is always a smooth dancing place, in the middle of which a flagstaff is planted. The food of these Nile peoples is largely vegetable, and they are all industrious agriculturists. They cultivate the red sorghum, and, to a lesser extent, the white; the ground-nut (in very large quantities), sesamum (the oil of which is much used), the eleusine grain, and also a true millet which penetrates very rarely to the regions nearer the Victoria Nyanza. They cultivate two or three kinds of beans and peas like the Indian "; Sweet potatoes are abundantly grown in Lango, where there are as man}^ as six different varieties. jMaize is cultivated in many parts, and pumpkins and gourds are universal. No sugar- cane is met with. jMost of the Nile peoples make much use in their diet of wild, fruits, which they obtain from the thin, scattered forests of the open country. There is a wild vine the grapes of which are eaten. Tobacco is universally cultiv
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