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15AXTL' NEGROES 



Sjiek(? and Stanley always 

 wi'ite the name '• Huma," 

 and tlds appears to be 

 tlie variant common in 

 Unyoro, though the }ire- 

 sent writer is obliged to 

 confess he has never 

 heard any one speak of 

 '• Eahnma." (It is quite 

 incorrect to write •• Wa- 

 hunia," as is done by 

 the earlier ex})lorers. l:)e- 

 cause " Wa-" is only the 

 degenerate Swahili form 

 of the plural i[)refix "Ea-." 

 which is used almost 

 throughout the Eantu 

 provinces of the Uganda 

 Protectorate.) Speke 

 states that the Hima 

 aristocracy in Unyoro 

 styled themselves the 

 "Bawitu"* ("-witu'' 

 being the root of this 

 name). In Karagwe, and 

 as fi\Y to the south-east 

 as the Businja country 

 on the shores of the 

 A'ictoria Nyanza. the local 

 name given t o the Hamitic 

 aristocracy is " Bahinda " 

 or " Baruhinda '' (the root being "-hinda"'). Descendants of the same race 

 are said to go l)y the name of " Batusi" in the vicinity of Tanganyika. 



Lieutenant Paul Kollmann, wlio wrote an excellent book on the 

 Victoria Nyanza some three years ago, states that the" Rahinda"were a tribe 

 of Hamitic descent independent of the Bahinia, and only one among 

 several tribes of Gala origin which invaded the western parts of the 

 Uganda Protectorate in ancient times. As already mentioned, in Unycro- 

 the traditional name of these Hamitic invaders is " Bachwezi." (The root 

 would be "-chwezi.") In Ankole, which has long been the nucleus of the 



* George Wilson writes this more correctly " Babitu,' and gives a legendary 

 origin to the name. 



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