BANTU NEGEOES 



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people that suggested the Nile Negro, nor were they altogether of what is- 

 styled the West African type. I should think, on the whole, they repre- 

 sented the most primitive and fundamental Negro race of the continent, 

 (of which the Congo Pygmies are a branch), crossed here and there witk 



384. BAGESU (BAKONDE, MASABa) PEOPLE OF WEST ELGON 



a superior Nandi or Elgumi ty2)e ; an aboriginal race, in fact, on which- 

 many centuries ago the first Bantu invaders impressed an archaic Bantu 

 dialect. 



A comparison of the heads in Figs. 257 and 384 with the heads of Bantu^ 

 Kavirondo, Nile Negroes, or Baganda will show at once what a low physical type- 



