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 456 Traditions of the Baganda and Bushongo.

historical accuracy of traditions, many of which he concedes are mythical. Even some of the most modern are obviously untrue ; or if they have any groundwork of fact, our present information does not enable us to define it.^^

E. Sidney Hartland.

^^ The foregoing analysis of the legends of the Baganda and Bushongo was written before Sir H. H. Johnston's survey of African ethnography appeared in the J.R.A.I., xliii., pp. 375 sqq. Whates^er may be the results of ethnological and philological researches on the various movements of African populations and civilizations, native traditions cannot be relied on for anything more than vague indications of the course and spread of races and cultures. Tlieir details are in the highest degree questionable.