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PYGMIES AND POREST NEGROES 



people who dwell to the 

 north-west of the north 

 end of Tanganyika, in 

 that part of the Congo 

 Forest which lies to the 

 west of the Kuanda 

 couirtry. Possibly the 

 real Balega once halted 

 in one of their migra- 

 tions at the south end 

 of Lake Albert, and a 

 remnant of them which 

 was conquered by the 

 invading Lendu has per- 

 petuated its name though 

 it has lost the use of a 

 Bantu language. The 

 Lendu as a race have 

 come into rather pro- 

 minent notice lately, 

 because they became to 

 a great extent enslaved 

 by the soldiers of Em in 

 Pasha's Equatorial Pro- 

 vince when these 

 Sudanese were driven by 

 the Madhist invasion of 

 the equatorial Nile re- 

 gions to take refuge in 

 the wild countries to 

 the west of Lake Albert ; 

 and when the Sudanese 

 were transferred to 

 L^ganda by Captain 

 Lugard they brought 

 witli them hundreds of Lendu followers, who now form thriving colonies 

 At ]Mengo and Entebbe. 



Like almost all races in this part of Africa, the migration of the 

 Lendu has been more or less from north to south. Emin Pasha used 

 to express the opinion that the Lendu had come from the north-east, 

 and were the original inhabitants of Unyoro, having been ejected from 

 •that country and dri\en beyond the Albert Nyanza by the subsequent 



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A LENDU, OK LEGA, FKOM SOUTH-WEST CORNER Or LAKE 

 ALBERT 



