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peo[»le that suggested the Nile Negro, nor were they altogether of what is- 

 styled the West African tyi)e. I should think, on the whole, they repre- 

 sented the most inimitive and fundamental Negro race of the continent 

 (of which the Congo Pygmies are a branch), crossed here and there with 



84. IJAGESf (I5AK0NJ)E, MASAIiA) FEOPLK OF \Vh>|- KI.coX 



a superior Nandi or Elgumi type ; an aboriginal race, in fact, on vvhicli 

 many centuries ago the first Bantu invaders impressed an archaic Bantu 

 dialect. 



A comparison of the heads in Figs. 257 and 384 with the heads of Bantu 

 Kavirondo. Nile Negroes, or Baganda will show at once what a low physical type 



