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have destroyed their herds and crushed their spirit ; in the 

 south they have been practically exterminated since 1872, when 

 their foe, the chief of Kau, called in the Somali to his assist- 

 ance. The united forces engaged the Galla in a great battle 

 at Kau, on the Ozi, and after a fight which lasted for three days 



^W Range of Somali in tfie 16th & 17th centuries 



i Present range of Somali 



L"'-' Present range of Galla 



ElSI Nilotic tribes 



t^/^ Range of Masai and closely allied tribes 



I I (In south-west corner and in Masai area) Bantu. 



Fig. 23. 



the Galla forces were annihilated. Krapf, sent in i 8 5 8 as " a 

 missionary to the Galla," found them still the dominant race in 

 the Tana valley, and estimated their numbers at between six and 

 eight millions. Brenner estimated the number of the southern 

 Galla at 20,000; but in 1892, Mr. Edmonds, the Wesleyan 

 missionary to the Galla, calculated the number in the same 

 district as only 250 individuals. The first and last estimates 



