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bide in the forests between the Sahara and the Zambezi watershed, 

 and the other to range over the prairies, steppes, and deserts of 

 Eastern and Southern Africa. Perhaps the forest Pygmies of to-day 

 are more nearly allied to the West African Bantu and Nile Negroes 

 than they are to the Bushman-Hottentot group, which last is a section 

 of the Negro sub-species somewhat clearly marked off and separated from 

 other Negro races. 



Many centuries ago these stunted little Negroes — of yellowish skin and 

 somewhat hairy bodies, of large heads, and of noses not only flat but with 

 the wings much developed, and rising as high as the central cartilage of 

 the nose — must have been the principal inhabitants of the Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate, sharing these wide and varied territories of forest, swamp, steppe, 

 and park-land with the prognathous type above described. At the present 



28c. BAM BUTE PYGMIES (TO SHOW ATTITUDES) 



day, however, the number of actual typical Pygmies existing in the Uganda 

 Protectorate is very small, and their range is probably confined to a belt 

 of forest lying to the east and west of the Semliki River, and perhaps to 

 the dense woods on the south-east shores of the Albert Edward Lake. They 

 are much more abundant in the Congo Free State, in whose forests they exist 

 in a more or less undiluted type southwards to the verge of Angola, 'and 

 north and north-west to the vicinity of the Bahr-al-Ghazal and the German 

 Cameroons. This Pygmy type is also found within the territory of the 

 German Cameroons, and in the interior of French Congo and Gaboon. 

 It may even be found still to exist in very remote parts of British 

 Nigeria. 



Dwarf Negro races possibly related to the Congo Pygmies are found in 

 the vicinity of Lake Stephanie, in North-Eastern Africa, while the Dwarf 



