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PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



almost destitute of any arts or human accomplishments, living to a great 

 -extent on the raw flesh of such creatures as they shot with arrows or 

 trapped in the forest, and also subsisting partially on wild honey and 



bee-grubs. The man was timid, 

 and it was very difficult to elicit 

 any particulars from him. He 

 appeared to speak imperfectly 

 the language of the Babira or 

 forest people (a degraded Bantu 

 dialect). 



80 far I have given the re- 

 sult of a general impression on 

 the eye of various travellers when 

 I have spoken of these negroes 

 in the forested regions and 

 border-lands of the Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate being " ape-like." But 

 I should state that the skulls 

 examined, the photographs of 

 the physical appearance studied, 

 the measurements of head and 

 body analysed, do not enable 

 scientific anthropologists to en- 

 dorse the term " ape-like " which 

 has been used by myself and 

 others to describe these negroes 

 of degraded aspect. Dr. Shrub- 

 sail, for instance, though admit- 

 ting the low standing of these 

 examples in the scale of negro 

 development, does not hold that 

 they are appreciably nearer the 

 fundamental simian stock than is 

 the average Negro. He considers, 

 however, that they offer sufficient 

 general resemblance to the forest 

 Pygmy type to be classed with 

 them, perhaps in a group which 

 I have styled (for want of a better 

 name) the " Pygmy-Prognathous." 

 The resemblance between the 

 yi 1 hal as no. 257) Pygmies and these Banande 



