PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



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abundant and powevful in former times, and inhabited iiianv regions alono- 

 tiie water-parting of the liasins of the Congo and the Nile, wliere they are 

 no longer seen. The belief of the present writer is, as already expressed, 

 that the black Negroes of ordinary stature, wlio entered Africa from the 

 lUrecticm of Arabia after the in\'asion cif the continent by a dwarf yellowish 

 Negro type, spread at first due west from the Nile to the we^t coa-t of 

 Africa, and clue south lieyond the Nile sources down the eastern half 

 of Africa, being for a long time repelled from any south-wej-tern extension 

 by tlie dense forests of the (.'ongo fiasin and cif that parr of tlu-" Nile 

 watershed abutting thereon. The pressure of Ilamitic and negroid races 

 from the north and north-east forced in time the big black Negroes to 

 adyance into the Congo Forest from yarious points: from Tanganyika and 

 its northern liift A'alley, ^yestwards and north-westwards; from the ba^in 

 of the Shari and the region c>f the Bahr-al-Ghazal, southwards and south- 

 east\yards. 



The best distinction to draw between the full-sized agricultural forest 

 negroes on the one hand and the l'ygmy-l-*rognathous negroes on the other 

 is that the former till the soil and cultiyate food plants, are " agricultural "; 



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300. PYGJIV WEAPONS AND IMPLESrENTS : DA(;GER ANIJ SCABBAKII, KNIVES, CHOPPER, AHBOWS AND 

 CJUIVER, A SOFT LE.VTHER PAD OR GLOVE TO GU.IED LEET HAND WHEN THE ARROW is REIXi; 

 SHOT EEOM THE EOW, BOW AND ARROWS 



and the others are not. Tlie-e agricultural negroes are of decidedly mixed 

 stock, some of them showing traces of the recent infusion of Ilamitic blood, 

 side by side with Pygmy-Prognathous characteristics; many belonging to 



