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THE LIVING RACES OF MANKIND 



Waganda and Wanyoro on the eastern side of the Nile, their language belongs to the group 

 spoken in East Soudan. The probable explanation of the characters of the Monbuttu is that 

 they are Negroes allied to the Niam-niam, but altered by Wahuma influence. Though they 

 are therefore not Bantu, they may be included as the westernmost of the Kitwara states. 



I. THE BANTU OP WESTERN AFRICA. 



THE west coast of Africa from the angle of the Gulf of Guinea southward to Damaraland is 

 occupied by Bantu tribes, who may be divided into two groups the people of Angola, and the 

 Bantu of the French Congo and the Cameroons. Inland is a third group the tribes of the 

 Congo Basin. 



The natives of the coast lands of the Portuguese province of Angola have been greatly 

 altered by foreign influences. The Angola tribes belong to three groups. The northern part 

 of the country for 120 miles south of the Congo is occupied by members of the race of the 

 Bakongo. The southern coast region is inhabited by the Abunda. The south-eastern or 

 inland section of Angola is occupied by a group of tribes known as the Ganguella, or 

 "stammerers." These Ganguella inhabit the basin of the Liba, a tributary of the Zambesi; 

 and one section of the race, known as the Balunda, is dominant in the Kasai, the great. 



southern tributary of the Congo. 



The Bakongo, who occupy Northern 

 Angola, give their name to the Congo- 

 River, along which they extend far into 

 the interior. The Bakongo are divided 

 into several sections; close to the coast 

 there are the Kabinda to the north of the 

 Congo and the Muahikongo to the south 

 of it. Inland they reach Stanley Pool, 

 beyond which they are replaced by the 

 purer-bred Bantu of the interior. John- 

 ston points out that there are two different 

 types among the Congo peoples: one of 

 which is "a fine, tall, upright man, with 

 delicately small hands and well-shaped 

 feet, a fine face, high, thin nose, beard, 

 moustache, and a plentiful crop of hair; 

 the other an ill-shaped, loosely-made 

 figure, with splay feet, high calves, a re- 

 treating chin, blubber lips, no hair about 

 the face, and the wool on his head close 

 and crisply curled. The farther you go 

 into the interior, the finer the type be- 

 comes. Such men as the Bayansi of Bolobo 

 are perfect Greek statues in the develop- 

 ment and poise of their forms, and two 

 points about them contrast very favourably 

 with most of the coast races namely, 

 their lighter colour, generally a warm 



chocolate, and their freedom from that 

 offensive smell which is supposed, wrongly, 

 to characterise most Africans. Many other 

 details show the comparatively high status 

 TWO CONGO NATIVES. of the Upper Congo races their small 



