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NILOTIC NEGROES 



inhabited Northern Unyoro (where a fragment of them remains), and that 

 the Bahima and their Bantu subjects drove this branch of the Nilotic 

 people across the Albert Nile to the north-west (where they remain as the 

 Aluru) and into Busoga (across the Victoria Nile) on the south-east. 

 From Busoga they appear to have been driven on by the Bantu right 

 through the Kavirondo country until they finally settled and throve round 

 the shores of Kavirondo Bay, where they at present bear the name of 

 Ja-luo or Nvifwa. It is a remarkable fact that the Ja-luo to this day arc 



427. A RAPT MADE OF PAPYRUS BUNDLES, WHITE NILE 



called by their Bantu neighbours ''Abanyoro," which would indicate that 

 this theory of their origin is correct. 



The Ja-luo reside in fixed villages of from ten to fifty huts, which are 

 surrounded by hedges of aloe and euphorbia. Formerly they built mud 

 or stone walls round their settlements in imitation of the Bantu Kavirondo 

 1<> the north. But this is a custom which has now died out. The houses 

 are similar in appearance to those of the Bantu tribes around them, as is 

 the arrangement about the two fireplaces. Young unmarried girls usually 

 sleep together in one large hut under the care of an old woman. The 

 young men and boys of the village also sleep by themselves, generally 



