The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-23

African territories within the British sphere
Of IN fuonoa soon passed from the company
to a Governor appointed by the crown.
In 1924 a British pTUteCtorato wan pro-
claimed over Uganda, and In the following
year. the company having sold their re-
naming rights to the British Government,
tho East Africa ProteotoTate was oonsti-
tuted. An Official notice Of Aug. 81 1890,
declared that "all the territories IN East
Africa under the p otectOuts Of her Maj
esty. except the islands Of Zanzibar ana
Pemba and the Uganda Protectorate, are
for the purposes Of administration included
In one protectorate, under the name Of the
East Africa Protectorute.' II was then
decided TO construct the so-oalled Uganda
Railway, which, a. We have said, does not
touch Uganda, but stops on the eastern
eide Of Lake Victoria. The first rails were
laid IN 1906. and the first train reached the
lake in December, 1901. This railway cost
the British Government about $4,000 900,
but Sir Charles Eliot holds that the CON
struction was justifable. In 1907 the East
Africa Protectorate acquired its present
limits by taking over from the Proteotorete
Of Uganda the two provinces OF NaiVasha
and Kisumu.
So far a. the existing data are concerned,
data, however, which may be modified
materially at any moment by the discovery
Of new facts, the ethnologic history OF
East Africa may be epitomized as follows:
When our knowledge OF Fast Africa be-
gins, II was inhabited by tribes In low
st ate Of civilization, who have left no vestiGes
Of distinctive arts or customs. They may
have been connected with the pygmiee,
but there Is no proof OF Il; nor II they we're.
can we say what was the other factor In
the hybrid. Over them came a great wave
Of Bantu speech accompanied, no doubt.
by an infusion OF new blood which spread
10 the south Of the continent, and, perhaps,
ori Einsted somewhere to the north OF Lake
Victoria. The Bantu area thus created
was invaded In the course Of time by Hamitic
races, or hybrids Of Hamites with negroes.
The Hamites remained at FIRST in the north,
but formed in the west, in the region OF
the Sobat. mixed race Of negro and Hamite
blood, now represented on the Nile by the
Dinka Bari and Lstulka. This race had
a tendency to southeasterly migration.
The holder elements, the Nasal detached
themselves as conquering hordes, perhaps
only few cent uries ago, and made them
selves masters Of the whole country be
tween the Maui the Tana and the sea, and
at least as far south as Mount Bilima-
marc. They proved Incapable Of founding
any sort OF empire. but they profoundly
influenced the Bantu races, except those
quite near the coast. The Kingdom OF
Uganda was also invaded from the north
at an unknown date by a tribe known as
Bahima. As these invaders imported
certain amount OF civilization and political
organization. and as they appear to have
been clothed, il is probable that they were
not part Of the Nilotio group mentioned
above, but Gallas. or some kindred tribes
men from the northeast The fact that
there is now no trace Of them in the regions
through which on this hypothesis they
passed in order 20 reach Uganda, suggests
that the Bahima moved southwest before
the Nilotic tribes moved southeast. In
historic times the Nasal -Bantu countries
TO the east were invaded from the north
by the Gallas and Somalis. The Gallas
somewhat checked the Nasal, but were
themselves disturbed by the SOmalis,
They have had little influence IN the better
known parts ofthe East Africa Protectorate,
but are probably an important factor in
the osntTal northern dist riot. We Scarcely
need 70 add that the whole OF the coast
has been subjected to . strong continuous
inflow Of Arabs, who by intermiKing with
the natives formed the Swahali breed but
did not penetrate inland.