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BANTU NEGllOES 



I'livoro, near 1-akc Allii-rt, speak a I'.aiitn laiioiiage diftViiiitj; widely from 

 the Nvoro tuii,L;nc : iirohalily it is a dialect of Liliukn.* The l^anvoro 

 seem to ha.ve extended tlieii- euii(|uests and settlements ri,G;lit across the 

 Upliev Sendiki into the ;\[bo^-a, I'.uleoa, and l!usonL;oi-a conntries on the 

 edt^e of the Con^o ^yatl■r^hed, and aho all alone- the western coast-line of 

 the Albert Nyanza as far north as :\Iahagi. On the east of i:nyoro (lie 



^'ictoria, Nile is |)i-aeti- 

 cally the boundary 

 ljetwe(m the J'.antu- 

 sjieaking ]ieo]ile and t he 

 Isih)tic Negroes. ]!iit 

 this does not |il'event 

 (iccasi(jnal niigrat ions one 

 way and the other, and 

 there are people s[)eak- 

 ing Xikitic dialects to 

 the ^(Jnt h and west of 

 the ^■'ictol■ia Nile, while a 

 few folk who still relain 

 the u^e of the I'l'iinyoro 

 Hantu lanouagi' are met 

 with near the .Muixdiisou 

 ]'"alls to the north of 

 the Nile. 



In jih i/s led I cliiir- 

 nrlenxticN there is not, 

 jierhaps, very much 

 difference between the 

 first group of Kaiitu 

 Negroes under considera- 

 tion, the I'akonjo, and 

 the second gi'ouii, which 

 comprises the mass of 

 I he pojiulatiou in I'nyoro, 

 Toro, and Ankole. 'I'he 

 I'akonjo, perhaps, where thev li\'e on high mountains such as Unwenzori, 

 are shorter in statui'e and of stoutiT build, with better dev(doped calves 

 than the po[iulation of the plains, Scime of the Bakonjo ha\'e rather 

 pleasing features, ami do not I'xhibit as a rule those degraded types met 



* bilnikn (bilivannma) .■"iml IvuaaJja arc two allied and very ancient Bantu 

 tongues siiekcii in tlic iure^t belt of the I'pjier Semliki. They ai'i; tlmrouglily 

 " liaiitu," I'Ut ditl'er cnnsidd'abb' from the other Bantu dialects of ULcaiala. 



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