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groups. These have now absorbed almost all the antecedent poiuilation 

 except the Pygmies, and have imposed on the mass of the forest people 

 more or less degraded Bantu dialects, and two other languages, the Lendu 

 and the Mbuba-l\lomfu, of uncertain affinities, but possibly derived from 

 the same stock as the INIadi in the western Nile basin. 



REMARKS ON THE SKELETON OF A BAMBUTE PYGMY FRO.M 

 THE SEMLIKI FOREST, UGANDA BORDERLAND. 



By KEANK C. SHRUBSALL, M.B., M.B.C.P., 



Fellow ok the Anthropological Institute. 



The skeleton of the Baiulwte Pygmy from the forest zone on the frontier l)etween the 

 Uganda Protectorate 

 and the Congo Free 

 State is of great in- 

 terest owing to the 

 paucity of osteolo- 

 gical material from 

 that district. Up to 

 the present om' in- 

 formation is chiefly 

 based on two Akka 

 skeletons sent to the 

 British Museum by 

 Dr. Fmin Pasha in 

 1888, and fully de- 

 scribed by the late 

 Sir William Flower 

 in the Jntirnal of 

 the Anthroj^ological 

 Institute, vol. xviii. 

 These skeletons were 

 unfortunately im- 

 l)erfect, whereas that 

 recently presented to 

 the ^luseum by Sir 

 H. H. Johnston is 

 practically perfect, 

 a few small bones 

 of the hands and 

 feet alone being 

 missing. Though the 

 Bambute skeleton 

 differs in some de- 

 gree from the Akkas, 

 it is best studied in 

 relation to the for- 

 mer specimens, the 310. an miutk i'vcjmy of the vppku rriKi. (this 

 details of which are whose skeleton is heke desckiheh) 



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