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m common. Thus Dr. Shriihsall, in analy.^ing my anthropometrical 

 ohser\atioiis, has discovered an interesting fact in regard to the two 

 sections of the Kavh'ondo people wlio d\vell in the Central and Kastein 

 Provinces of the Uganda Protectorate. For some time past it lias heen 

 ol)ser\'ed that one section of the Kaxirondo people spoke a language 

 which was practically identical with the Xilotic Aclioli tongui-, whife the 

 other folk in the Kavirondo country used Bantu dialects, the languages of 

 the two sections being as far apart as English and Turkish. Xow in all the 

 Kavirondo people speaking a Nilotic language, Dr. Shrubsall lias found that 



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the physical eliaracteristics were those of the Acholi jieople, li\ing 200 or 

 1)00 miles distant in the Nile Pro\ince ; whereas the measurements of 

 the Bantu-speaking Kavirondo classed that people with tlie genei-al I'antu 

 type of the southern half of Africa. ( )n the otlier hand, we lia\e tlie 

 Bahima, a race which [ihysically is most closelv allied to the Somali, the 

 (iaia, and the ancient Egyptian — all of which j)eoples s|joke what we call 

 Hamitic languages — using at the present day the Bantu dialect of I'nyoro, 

 a language closely related to the tongue of Uganda, and lielonging to a group 

 of tongues usually a>sociated with a Negro people. 



The five mairr stocks from which the elements of the native races in 



