n 1446 was reduced to L10 yearly. Bamburgh was twice
taken by the Yorkists in the Wars of the Roses and twice recovered by Queen
Margaret. In 1463, after it had been recovered a second time by the queen,
Henry VI. stayed there for a year, but after the battle of Hexham it was
again taken by the Yorkists, and the castle and town were then so much
injured that from that time there is no mention of the burgesses or their
privileges. Bamburgh returned two members to parliament in 1295 and again
in Edward III.'s reign, but since then has never been represented. In 1384
Lord Neville received licence to dig for sea-coal in Bamburgh, and mines of
coal and lead existed there as late as 1681.

BAMBUTE (sometimes incorrectly called BATWA), a race of pygmies of the
Semliki Forest, on the western borders of the Uganda Protectorate between
Albert Nyanza and Albert Edward Nyanza. They probably form merely a branch
of the pygmy race of Equatorial Africa, represented farther west by H. von
Wissmann's Batwa (_q.v._). Their complexion varies from reddish-yellow to
brownish-black, with head-hair often of a russet-brown, and body-hair,
black and bristly on upper lip, chin, chest, axillae and pubes, yellowish
and fleecy on cheeks, back and limbs. Their average height is 4 ft. 9 in.
Even when forced to keep clean, their skins give out a rancid odour,
something (Sir H. H. Johnston says) between the smell of a monkey and a
negro. Their faces are remarkable for the long upper lip, and the
bridgeless nose with enormous alae (the cartilage of the nose above the
nostrils). Like the Batwa they are nomad hunters, building only huts of
sticks and leaves, and living in the forest, where they hunt the largest
game with no weapon but a tiny bow from which they shoot poisoned arrows.
Sir H. H. Johnston states that the Bambute have a good idea of drawing, and
with a sharpened stick can sketch in sand or mud the beasts and birds known
to them. The Bambute do not tattoo or scar, nor have they any love of
ornament, wearing no ear-rings, necklets, anklets, &c. The upper incisors
and canines are sharpened to a point. In the forests they go quite naked.
They speak a corrupted form of the dialects of their negro neighbours. They
have a peculiar way of singing their words. Their voices are low and
musical and the pronunciation is singularly staccato, every syllable being
separately uttered. They show no trace of spirit or ancestor worship, but
have some idea that th