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Mount Elgon
The Bantu-speaking Gishu (Gisu), cultivators of coffee, bananas, millet, and corn (maize), occupy the western slopes. Elgonyi was the Masai name for the mountain. The Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson visited the southern side of Elgon in 1883; in 1890 Frederick (later Sir Frederick) Jackson and Ernest Gedge traversed…
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The Bantu-speaking Gishu (Gisu), cultivators of coffee, bananas, millet, and corn (maize), occupy the western slopes. Elgonyi was the Masai name for the mountain. The Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson visited the southern side of Elgon in 1883; in 1890 Frederick (later Sir Frederick) Jackson and Ernest Gedge traversed…
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East African mountains
The people of the East African mountains
The Gisu have densely settled the western slopes of Mount Elgon below the forest zone.
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The Gisu have densely settled the western slopes of Mount Elgon below the forest zone.
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