BANTU RACE

[s. 81] : The preponderating element of the population of Africa from about the fifth degree of north latitude to Cape Colony (excepting the Hottentots, Bushmen and some smaller it groups) is the Bantu race, numbering 60,000,000 or more. The name in almost all the languages of this region (Zulu, Abantu; singular Umantu person) means “the people.” Among the members of the Bantu race may be named the Zulus, the Amaxosa or Kafirs the Bechuana, Basuto, and kindred tribes on the south; the Ovaherero, Ovampo, Balunda, Bateke and Mpongwe, on the west; the Congo, Bayansi, Bangala, Babangi, Many era a; the people of Toro and Uganda, the Angoni, and others among the Great Lakes; the Rua, Bemba, Babisa, and other tribes near the Le er Lakes and on the sources of the Congo; and the Waksuburb of Patna. amba, Swahili, Wanika, Mahenge, Wakonde, Makua, and other tribes to the number of two hundred or more. The com3 outstations and 5 village schools. municants number 26. Also written Bank i pore. The general kinship of these tribes is seen, to some extent, in their person, their hue, their features, their religious notions, their mental type, and their mode of life; but most of all in Taking their language as our their language. guide and proof, we are left with no doubt that these tribes belong to one and the same family, between which and all other known families or races there is a manifest and fixed BANKURA: Capital of the Bankura district, Bengal, IndisT, 100 miles N. W. of Calcutta. Mi ion station of Population, about 19,000. the WMS; 4 mi ionaries and 36 native workers, men and women, 6 outstations, 2 high schools, 18 village schools, 97 church members. BANWI A town on the island of Fernando Po, in the Bight of Biafra, on the W. coast of Africa; station of the Primitive Methodist Mi ionary Society (1880), with a mi ionary and his wife, 1 native worker, a chapel, a Sunday school and: 16 church members. 81