BATWA  , a tribe of See also:

• AFRICAN

African pygmies living in the mountainous See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country around Wissmann Falls in the See also:

• KASAI, or CASSAI

Kasai See also:

• DISTRICT

district of the Belgian See also:

• CONGO

Congo . They were discovered in 188o by See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul Pogge and See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

Hermann von Wissmann, and have been identified with See also:

• SIR

Sir H . M . See also:

• STANLEY (FAMILY)
• STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN (18x5–1881)
• STANLEY, EDWARD (1779-1849)
• STANLEY, SIR HENRY MORTON (184o-1904)
• STANLEY, SIR WILLIAM (1548-163o)
• STANLEY, THOMAS (1625-1678)

Stanley's Vouatouas . They are typical of the negrito See also:

• FAMILY

family See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

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
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

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 (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
• BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

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

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 (Lat. palma, Gr. iraX6.jn )
• PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP (1768-1806)

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, ALBERT SIDNEY (1803–1862)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (1849-1888)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (1804-1871)
• JOHNSTON, ARTHUR (1587-1641)
• JOHNSTON, J
• JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON (1807-1891)
• JOHNSTON, SIR HENRY HAMILTON (1858- )

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
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1891) .