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liide in tlie forests between the Saliara and the Zambezi watershed, 

 and the other to range over the prairies, steppes, and deserts of 

 Eastern and Southern Africa. I'erhaps the forest Fvgmies of to-day 

 are more nearly allied to the ^\'est African I!antu and Nile Negroes 

 than they are to the Bnshnian-Hottentot group, which last is a section 

 of the Negro sub-species somewhat clearly marked off and separated from 

 other Negro races. 



:Many centuries ago these stunted little Negroes— of yellowish skin and 

 somewhat hairy bodies, of large heads, and of noses not only Hat bat with 

 the wings much develo[)ed, and rising as higli as the central cartilage of 

 the nose — must have been tlie principal inlialiitaiits of the I'ganda Pro- 

 tectorate, sharing these wide and varied territories of forest, swamp, steppe, 

 and park-land with the prognathous ty[)e above descrilied. At the present 



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day, however, the number of actual typical Pygmies existing in the I'ganda 

 Protectorate is verv small, and tlieir range is probablv confined to a belt 

 of forest lying to the east and west of the Semliki l;i\"er, and [lerhaps to 

 the dense woods on the south-east shores of the Alhcrt Edward Lake. They 

 are much more abundant in the (.'ougo Eree State, in whose forests they exist 

 in a more or less undiluted ty[:e southwards to the \-erge of Angola, and 

 north and north-west to the \iciiiity of the Pahr-al-( ihazal and the (ierman 

 ("ameroons. This Pvgmv t\})e i- also found within the territory of tlie 

 (rerman L'ameroons, anii in the interior of ]''rench Congo and (iaboon. 

 It may e\-en be fountl still to exist in \ery remote parts of ]jritish 

 Nigeria. 



Dwarf Negro races possil>lv related to the Congo Pygmies are found in 

 the N'ieinity of Lake Stephanie, in North-Easteru Africa, wdiile the Dwarf 



