ANTHROPOLOGY 



47; 



in common. Thus Dr. Shrubsall, in analysing my anthropometrical 



observations, has discovered an interesting fact in regard to the two 

 sections of the Kavirondo people who dwell in the Central and Eastern 

 Provinces of the Uganda Protectorate. For some time past it has been 

 observed that one section of the Kavirondo people spoke a language 

 which was practically identical with the Nilotic Acholi tongue, while the 

 other folk in (he Kavirondo country used Bantu dialects, the languages of 

 the two sections being as far apart as English and Turkish. Now in all the 

 Kavirondo people speaking a Nilotic language, Dr. Shrubsall has found that 



■^■^^■■■■^^H 



257. NATIVES OF WESTERN' SLOPES OF MOUNT ELCiON (LSAGESl) 



the physical characteristics were those of the Acholi people, living 200 or 

 300 miles distant in the Nile Province ; whereas the measurements of 

 the Bantn-speaking Kavirondo classed that people with the general Bantu 

 type of the southern half of Africa, On the other hand, we have the 

 Bahima, a race which physically is most closely allied to the Somali, the 

 Gala, and the ancient Egyptian — all of which peoples spoke what we call 

 Hamitic languages— using at the present day the Bantu dialect of Unyoro, 

 a language closely related to the tongue of Uganda, and belonging to a group 

 of tongues usually associated with a Negro people. 



The five main stocks from which the elements of the native races in 



