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rwailES AND EOllEST NEGROES 



tlie Jiaiitu slock ;'\vhicli is an ancient lilcnd of West African Negro and 

 Ilaniite,); olliers connected \\\i\i the ."Mafdiettu (Momlinttn), Nyam-Nyain, 

 and Madi — all tlie^e, again, being races \'ariouslv cciin[i(jsed of crosses 

 fiet\veen tlie .\ilotic and ^\'e^t African Negroes, daslied witli Hannte and 

 Nnliian. In langnage the iorest Negroes of the Uganda liorderhind and 

 the adjc>ining 1 erritorv of tlie Congo Free !>tate belong to two nnclassihed 

 groups (Ivenihi and ^lonifn) — tongues veiy distantly allied to ^Nfafibettii 

 and ^ladi — and to two distinct divisions oi' tlie Bantn language faniih', the 

 i\iliira sectiim and the Lihuku (di\ide(I into two \er\- distinct dialects, 



3or. I'YujiY WEAroxs, ANn two tkcju'kts jiaoe fkom elephant's tusks 



Kuanifia and Lill^■anuma, or fjihuku). U'he names of the tribes of forest 

 Negroes coming under this purview are the IjEXDH and Bambuba (or 

 Mbuba) ; the Babira (Jjagbira, ]3avira), with their different cognomens of 

 Ba-ongora, Jiadundjo, Baudesama, Bandusnnia, Babusese, l^asinda, etc. • and 

 the J-JAAMJiA, with the allied Bahnku (TSabvanumaj. 



The Lendu form a distinct group somewhat by themselves, and so do 

 the Bambuba.* The last-named are clos(dy connected in origin with the 

 ?iIomfu trifle which dwell aViout the northern sources of the \\'elle. 

 Linguistically speaking, 1 lia\e not as yet been afile to trace marked 



* t)r jicrhnps more properly the "^Mbuba.' 

 iiciL^liliours. 



■ Ba- " is the jilural prefi.x of their i^laiitu 



