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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ed as of the tribes. , + T,. rr the names Ivamr,Fulah, etc. Such term, how-ever, is desirable to represent thegenus of which the races inhab-iting the countries around andbelow the Nyanzas are the spe-cific developments. These racesdiffer not greatly from the Kaf-firs and the Hottentots, but areclearly intermediate betweenthem and the Sudanese. TheBantu tribes are many and im-portant, but we need not here descendto particulars. Most of the peoples inquestion lie within the great curve ofthe North Congo; to these Stanley hasgiven the varying names of Aruwimi,Luhali, Ituri, etc. Besides the generic terms which we have here presented, the Stanley names the Mabode explorer just referred to has given us others which should probably be regarded as cover- ing multitudes of specific tribes. One ofthe largest of these names is Mabode,which is assigned in a general way to thenations on the north or right bank of theUpper Congo, having their central seatsabout the intersection of parallel 2° N.
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%$F^ TYPES FROM THE NIGER—SLAVES OF NIKAI.E-CfREA.Drawn by Tofani, after a sketch of G. Vuillier. with the 28th meridian. It is not clearin how large a sense the discoverer in-tends the ethnic term Mabode to be used ;and the same may be said of the racesthat he classified as the Ababua, lyingimmediately west of the Mabode. In like manner we have the tribessummarized under the The Momvu andname of Momvu, belong- ^^Ting to the same belt of ter- eral scheme,ritory, but further east. In the Nyanza 638 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. region Stanley evidently indicates thelarger groups of nations as distinguished from individual tribes by such ethnicterms as Ankori, Ruanda, Karagwe, Toro,etc. It has not, however, been the part ofthis great traveler specifically to study thepeoples (>f the Congo basin, and to classifythem in superior and inferior groups.Nor did the explorations of Livingstone,much narrower in compass, afford op-portunity for large investigations intorace characteristics. It is

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