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jungles, rank grass, and scrub -covered plains are of no use to a 

 pastoral people. When, therefore, the Masai invaded the country, 

 they swept southward past Njemps, to the rich grazing lands around 

 Naivasha and on Laikipia. 



Fig. 21.— The Head of a Galla. 

 (After Paulitschke. ) 



Section D. — The Hamitic Races 



(a) The Galla 



By some authorities the Masai are included in the Hamitic group, 

 but we have only to compare the features of a member of this 

 tribe with those of a Galla (Fig. 21) to realise the predominance of 

 the negro element in the former. The aspect of the pure Hamite 

 differs altogether from those of the Bantu and Negroid races. The 



accompanying portrait of a 

 Galla presents no correspond- 

 ence with the conception 

 usually formed of an African 

 native. The forehead is high 

 and square instead of low and 

 receding ; the nose is narrow, 

 with the nostrils straight and 

 not transverse ; the chin is 

 small and slightly pointed in- 

 stead of massive and protrud- 

 ing ; the hair is long and not 

 woolly ; the lips are thinner than those of the negro and not everted ; 

 the expression is intellectual, and indicates a type of mind higher than 

 that of the simple negro. Indeed, except for the colour, it could 

 hardly be distinguished from the face of a European. These charac- 

 teristics prepare us for the fact that the Galla are not African, but 

 immigrants from Asia. This was impressed on me at the outset by 

 their folklore, some of which had been collected by Bird Thompson. 

 He told me the Galla story of the creation of the first man, whose 

 name was Zadami — obviously a variant of Adam, so that apparently 

 they still remember some of the primitive traditions of Western Asia. 

 The history of the tribe is referred to in the following chapter, and it 

 is unnecessary to describe the people, for this has recently been done 

 in an elaborate monograph by Paulitschke.^ 



^ Ph. Paulitschke, Die Ethnographic des nord-ost Afrikas, Wien, 1893. Some 

 remarks in New's Life, etc., in East Africa, p. 274, suggest that the Galla have a 

 certain belief in Totemism. It does not seem necessary to refer to the earlier theories 

 in regard to the Galla. The first were stated by C. T. Beke, ' ' On the Origin of the 

 Gallas," Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1847 (1848), pp. 113-118. Speke regarded the Wa-huma 

 settlers in Uganda as Galla, whereas Emin (quoted by Jephson, With Emin Pasha in 

 Central Africa, 1890, p. 63) thought the Galla the descendants of the Wa-huma. 



