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groups. These have now alisorlied almost all the antecedent population 

 except the Pygmies, and have imposed on the ma>s of the forest peo[ile 

 more or less degraded Bantu dialects, and two other languages, the l^endu 

 and the Mhuba-Momfu, of uncertain affinities, but possibly derived from 

 the same stock as the Madi in the western Nile basin. 



KE.MAEKS ON THE SKELETON OF A BAMBUTE PYG.AIY EKOM 

 THE SE.AHJKI FOREST, UOAXDA BORDERLAND. 



T'.Y FKANK ('. SHRUESALL, M.B., Jl.Ii.C.l'., 

 Fklliiw of j'llE ANTHKuroijiiMCAL l»rnrTE. 



The skeleton of the Bamhute Pysiiiy from the forest zone on the frontier V>etween the 

 Ugan da Protectorate 

 and the Congo Fiee 

 State is of great ni- 

 terest owing to the 

 paucity of osteolo- 

 gical material from 

 that district. U]! to 

 the present our in- 

 formation is chiefly 

 based on two Akka 

 .skeletons sent to the 

 I'yritish iSIuseum l>y 

 ])r. Fmin I'asha in 

 1888, and fully de- 

 scribed by the late 

 Sir William Flower 

 in the JournnI <>/ 

 the Anthro'pologiad 

 Institute, vol. xviii. 

 These skeletons were 

 unfortunately im- 

 jierfect, whereas that 

 recently jiresented to 

 the Museum by Sir 

 H. H. .Tohnstdu is 

 jiractically jierfcct, 

 a few small bones 

 of the hands and 

 feet alone being 

 missing. Though the 

 llambute skcletim 

 differs in some ile- 

 gree from the Akkas, 

 it is best studied in 

 relation li> ihi' for- 

 mer siieciiiieiis, the 

 details of whieh ale 



AX jiiaTE i'V.;siY (jr the vltek ituhi. (this is the inoividcal 



ttllosK SKELETON' IS HEHE DESCKIIiEO) 



