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south of the Congo. They are well made, with limbs perfectly proportioned, and are seldom more than 4 ft. high. Their complexion is a yellow-See also:

brown, much lighter than their See also:

BANTU

Bantu-See also:

NEGROID

Negroid neighbours. They have See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short woolly See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair and no See also:

beard. They are feared rather than despised by the Baluba and Bakuba tribes, among whom they live. They are nomads, cultivating nothing, and keeping no animals but a small type of See also:

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting-See also:

dog. Their weapon is a tiny See also:

BOW (pronounced " bo ")

bow, the arrows for which are usually poisoned. They build themselves temporary huts of a See also:

BEE (Sanskrit blza, AS. ben, Lat. apis)

bee-hive shape.

As hunters they are famous, bounding through the See also:

JUNGLE (Sans. jangala)

jungle growth " like grasshoppers " and fearlessly attacking elephants and See also:

BUFFALO

buffalo with their tiny weapons. Their only occupation apart from hunting is the preparation of See also:

palm-See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine which they See also:

BARTER (from Fr. barater, to truck, to exchange)

barter for See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain with the Baluba. They are monogamous and display much family See also:

AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection. See further See also:

PYGMY, or PIGMY (Gr. avy,uavos, from avypij, a Greek measure of length corresponding to " the distance between the elbow and knuckles " of a man of average size)

PYGMY; See also:

AKKA (TIKKI-TI%II)

AKKA; See also:

WOCHUA (Aci;ua.)

WOCHUA; See also:

BAMBUTE (sometimes incorrectly called BATWA)

BAMBUTE. See A. de Quatrefages, The Pygmies (Eng. ed., 1895) ; Sir H. H. See also:

Johnston, See also:

UGANDA

Uganda See also:

PROTECTORATE

Protectorate (1902) ; Hermann von Wissmann, My Second See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

Journey through See also:

EQUATORIAL

Equatorial See also:

Africa (See also:

LONDON

London, 1891).

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