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invaded the South African 

 peninsula, and brought 

 so much of it under the 

 dominion of the Bantu- 

 speaking Negro, seem to 

 have been a relatively 

 recent addition to the 

 races of South Africa, 

 and to liave rushed down 

 from the more central 

 parts of the continent 

 with a rapidity only less 

 than that with which 

 they rushed back again in 

 a counter-raid during the 

 early years of the nine- 

 teenth century — a raid 

 which brought Bantu- 

 speaking natives from 

 Zululaud to within hail 

 of the Victoria Nyanza. 

 The original Zulu raiders 

 seem to have come from 

 somewhere in the direc- 

 tion of Tanganyika, and 

 to have been a people 

 which had received at that time an admixture of this Hima stock from 

 the direction of Uganda. 



Under the Ptolemies and the Greek administration of Egypt nothing 

 seems to have been done to open up communication with Negro Nileland. 

 Some time after the Roman conquest of Egypt, the Emperor Nero sent 

 explorers to discover the source of the Nile, and they appear to have 

 travelled south up the course of the White Nile until they were stopped 

 by the sudd. They may possibly have reached as far south as the vicinity 

 of Lado, though to my thinking it is doubtful whether they got much 

 beyond the junction of the White Nile and the Bahr-al-Grhazal. Nothing 

 was done in tliis direction by the Byzantine Empire, nor did the Muhammadan 

 rulers of Egypt for something like 1,100 years make any attempt to extend 

 their power or enlarge their knowledge in the direction of the Upper Nile. 

 All this time the infusion of Gala or Hamitic blood into the races of Uganda 

 (which consisted mainly of the ordinary black Negro stock grafted on to 

 a preceding dwarfish race like the Congo Pygmies) was building up dynasties 



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