AND THE RUDOLP BASIX 



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white and fawn colour, diversifv flicse surroundings with tlieir abrupt 

 patches of light and colour. 



These few notes describe the chief cliaracteristics of the Kavirondo 



29. "many a lovely howkh ' 



villages to be seen round about Kitoto's (as the principal chief is called), 

 on the Rivers Oroha and Kivosi ; but they are also characteristic of the 

 settlements of those Kavirondo who apeak a Nilotic and not a Bantu 

 language. 



This particular tribe of the Ja-luo or Nyifwa, whose tongue connects 



