. 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. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. BANTU NEGROES 651 centre. It is composed of a vast framework of palm-frond stems or flexible sticks lined inside with closely tied canework. This framework of the roof really extends uninterruptedly to the

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. 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. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. BANTU NEGROES 651 centre. It is composed of a vast framework of palm-frond stems or flexible sticks lined inside with closely tied canework. This framework of the roof really extends uninterruptedly to the ground, and round the edge of the hut and its narrow verandah, if it has one. It is strengthened from the ground upwards by a circle of poles which are placed perpendicularly in the ground all round the periphery of the house, and which fit into the roof just where it begins to slope upwards towards the apex. The roof is supported in the interior by tall, straight poles made of the stems of the wild date palm. In the fore part of the hut, near the main door, at about an equal distance between the projection over the porch and the apex of the roof, there is a screen or partition wall with supports in the centre made of these date-palm columns going right up to the roof. In all Uganda buildings of the old type (I am obliged to put in this proviso, because the Baganda are changing their customs so rapidly, and many of them are now building houses after the European style in bricks) the palm-trunk column is an ever-present and picturesque feature. The dwellings of kings and chiefs, churches, mosques, and schools are all distinguished by this forest of smooth, straight, slender palm-trunks. Their use enables the ]Iuganda of the better class to give his roof a high pitch and his dwelling a stateliness which makes it something far superior to the ordinary African hut, however extensive may be the ramifica- tions of these low- pitched dwellings. Of course the houses of the peasantry a