Bantu Folk Lore: Medical and General【電子書籍】[ Matthew L. Hewat ]

＜p＞The Bantu race comprises one great family extending over all Central and South Africa, South of a line drawn roughly from the Kamerun to the Pokomo River, but excluding the South West cornerーGreat Namaqualand and Western Cape Colonyーwhich from time immemorial has been occupied by Hottentots. Although strictly speaking the term “Bantu” is philological, and this classification based on linguistic grounds, and although the different tribes it embraces show largely but in varying degrees that they result from a mixture with oriental or negro blood, yet the similarity of speech, custom and religion, warrant our treating them collectively as one homogenous ethnological group. It is now a generally received opinion that the Bantu originally emanated from a region in the Congo basin, probably north of that river where it receives the tributary Mubangi, and that the Europeans first met the Kaffirs as the vanguard of this invading army when their long march southward to the furthest extremity．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る