The A-Kamba of British East Africa

MR. HOBLEY has again put ethnologists in his debt by giving another series of observations on certain tribes of British East Africa. His monograph on "Eastern Uganda: an Ethnological Survey,"published by the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1902 was followed in 1903 by a valuable paper, "Anthropological Studies in Kavirondo and Nandi,"in the Journal of the Institute. In the present volume he deals mainly with the A-Kamba, who inhabit a large area south and south-east of Mount Kenia, and about whom we have hitherto had extremely little information, with the exception of a capital general and comparative ethnographical account by J. M. Hildebrandt in the Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Bd. x., 1878, p. 347. A small book containing vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages, compiled by Mrs. Hinde, was published by the Cambridge University Press in 1904, but no details are given about either people.