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CHAPTER XIX. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
The races of man which I am about to enumerate 
at the commencement in' this chapter, extend over a 
region of Eastern Africa lying between the first degree 
north of the Equator and five degrees to the south, 
and bounded on* the west by the Victoria Nyanza and 
the thirty-fourth degree of east longitude, and on the 
east by the Indian Ocean. I wish, for the sake of 
comparison, to review all the known races inhabiting 
this wide stretch of country; but I shall more espe¬ 
cially describe those dwelling 1 ’ in the vicinity of Mount 
Kilima-njaro, with 1 whom I have come into personal 
contact during my recent stay in that district. 
The country which lies ; betweem the Victoria Nyanza 
and the coast, and is circumscribed by the limits I 
have just cited, offers certain peculiarities of con¬ 
formation worthy of recapitulation, inasmuch as they 
doubtless influence the races of men inhabiting those 
regions. Beyond the fertile cultivated coast-belt, 
which is rarely more than ten miles broad, begins the 
Nyika, a strange cc wilderness,” as its name imports, 
covered with harsh repellant vegetation, and almost 
unprovided with running water. Here the rainfall is 
scanty, and the country bears a parched look all the 
year round. This semi-desert, except where it is 
