Identifier: naturalhistory07ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Natural history
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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an ethnological collec-tion from any of her people a matter of great educational value. During the past year Mr. Douglas visited Barotse and Bechuana-land. As may be seen from the map, these territories occupy the entirecentral portion of that part of Africa lying between the southern bordersof the Congo Free State and the Orange river. This region is cut into K^^l VBAROTSC law \ J t-arnbez, A J% KHAMAS MlffGDM I \ Oranq> / ioa 200 300 400 sooMileS- two parts by the Zambezi river, well known for its beautiful VictoriaFalls. All the interior of South Africa has been for some centuries thehome of a large division of the so-called Bantu peoples, the dominantnegro race. It is generally agreed that the Bantu originated somewherenear the head-waters of the Nile. As they increased in numbers, theymigrated southward and eastward, dominating the whole continentfrom the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope. The Bantu horde whichrolled out from the north into the vallev of the Zambezi and into the
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SOUTH-CENTRAL AFRICAN COLLECTION 71 Kalahari Desert, is chiefly known under the name of Bechuana. As amatter of fact, however, this name belongs to a very small group of tribesthat drove out the original inhabitants, who may have been the Bushmen,and took possession of their lands. The best known divisions of theseBantu intruders are the Bechuana, Zulu, Mashona, Barotse and Basuto. Mr. Douglas writes in part regarding the expedition as follows: I reached (ape Town, S. A., about May 1, leaving directly forBulawayo, South Rhodesia, arriving there May 5. After a short stayI left for Bechuanaland and arrived at Palapye Road at 10 oclock inthe evening of May 15. Early next morning I arranged with the Bech-nana Trading Company for transportation to Serowe, King Khamasstardt or native village, located some (>!> miles from Palapye Road,and set out, arriving on the third day at 1 P. M. The following day Icalled upon the king but learned that he was away, inspecting one ofhis cattle posts

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