PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



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encountered a rather brutish 

 individual in this part of the 

 country, he always turned out 

 to be a ^lunande, but I am 

 not able to say that there was 

 any definite ape-like tribe known ' 

 as " Banande " ; on the'^ con- j^ 

 trarv, whilst here and there .*,,*- 

 prognathous, short-legged in- ' 

 dividuals existed in separate 

 communities in a pariah-like 

 condition, very often they might 

 be the offspring of Bakonjo, ' 

 Babira, Baamba, or Bambuba 

 peoples, who in their ordinary 

 type were decidedly not simian, 

 but who may have mingled in 

 times past with the lowest j. 

 stratum of the aboriginal popu- i 

 lation, with the result that the 

 ape-like type still cropped up 

 by occasional reversion. I should 

 also observe that similar progna- 

 thous, long-upper-lipped, short- 

 legged Negroes reappear, though 

 in a less marked form, among 

 the Bantu people on the western 

 slopes of ]Mount Elgon, in the 

 dense forests clothing the flanks 

 of that huge extinct volcano. 



The illustration on p. 513 

 was drawn from an individual 

 whom I found lurking in the 

 forest near the Belgian station 

 of Fort Mbeni, to the west of 

 the Semliki Kiver. His skin 

 was a dirty yellowish brown. 

 He was accompanied by a wife 

 or woman companion, differing 

 little in appearance from the ordinary 

 that individuals like himself were not 

 though they were pariahs dwelling on 



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2fc7. A MINAXDE 



negroes of the forest. I was told 



at all uncommon in that district, 



the outskirts of native villages^ 



