PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



ill 



encountered a rather brutish 

 individual in this part of the 

 country, he always turned out 

 to be a jNlunande, but I am 

 not able to say that there was 

 any definite ape-like tribe known 

 as '' Banande " ; on the con- 

 trary, whilst here and there 

 prognathous, short-legged in- 

 dividuals existed in separate 

 communities in a pariah-like 

 condition, very often they might 

 be the offspring of Bakonjo, 

 Babira, Baamba, or Bambuba 

 peoples, who in their ordinary 

 type were decidedly not simian, 

 but who may have mingled in 

 times past with the lowest 

 stratum of the aboriginal popu- 

 lation, with the result that the 

 ape-like type still cropped up 

 by occasional reversion. I should 

 also observe that similar progna- 

 thous, long-upper-lipped, short- 

 legged Negroes reappear, though 

 in a less marked form, among 

 the Bantu people on the western 

 slopes of Mount Elgon, in the 

 dense forests clothing the flanks 

 of that huge extinct volcano. 



The illustration on p. 513 

 was drawn from an individual 

 whom I found lurking in the 

 forest near the Belgian station 

 of Fort Mbeni, to the west of 

 the Semliki Eiver. His skin 

 was a dirty yellowish brown. 

 He was accompanied by a wife 

 or woman companion, differing 



little in appearance from the ordinary negroes of the forest. I 

 that individuals like himself were not at all uncommon in that 

 though they were pariahs dwelling on the outskirts of native 



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was told 

 district, 

 villages. 



