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BANTU NEGROES 



way the Bakonjo tribe reaches in a south-westerly direction to within a 

 short distance of Lake Kivu, always skirting the westerly trend of the 

 forest wall. 



The Batoko, together with other and scarcely distinguishable tribes of 

 the district lying south of Unyoro, east of Euwenzori, and north of 



324. TOBO_PEASANTS (TALL AND SHORT) 



Ankole, are really only a section of the Banyoro, without, perhaps, quite 

 so much original mixture of Hamitic* blood. Tall men are very common 

 amongst the Batoro, even where this is not due to recent Hamitic inter- 

 mixture. The average Toro peasant is rather a degraded type of negro. 

 The men dress themselves somewhat carelessly in roughly cured skins ; 

 the women in a piece of bark-cloth wound round the hips. They are apt 



