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PYGMIES AND FOREST XEGEOES 



aorieultural ]Mbuba and ^Nlomfu Negroes, a forest race of not particularly low- 

 type which inhabits the crest of the Congo-Nile water-parting, from the 

 upper streams of the Kibale (Welle) to the Semliki Valley. I, in a measure, 



2yO. A PYUMY CHILD FBOM MBOGA 



repeated the same discovery and disappointment. I set myself to work to 

 write down the language spoken by the Pygmies of the Semliki Forest 

 (knowing nothing then of Dr. Stuhlmann's researches), and compiled the 

 long vocabulary which appears in Chapter XX. " Here," I thought, " is the 



