Title: The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude
Identifier: cu31924087982504 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: African languages; Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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5M PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGEOES and â as if the original motif had been forgotten and the gestures and writhings were merely traditional. Actually I never noticed any liking for deliberate indecency on the part of these Pygmies, who should certainly be
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299, PYGMIES EATING described as strictly observing the ordinary decencies of life, perhaps rather punctiliously. Amongst themselves they are said to be very moral. Their women, however, soon degenerate into immorality when they come into contact with Sudanese or Swahilis. But even then they observe outward decorum and assume an affectation of prudishness. I have referred already to the agricultural forest negroes who dwell alongside the Dwarfs. Native traditions, as recorded by Schweinfurth and Junker and other early explorers of the Bahr-al-Ghazal region of the Congo watershed, would seem to show that the Congo Dwarfs were far more

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