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MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



of the Egyptian Sudan, became somewhat Arabised by the Arabs and 

 Nubians, who, under the protection of Egypt, invaded these regions of the 

 Upper Nile as slave- and ivory-traders some fifty years ago. The count rv 

 of the Latuka was never formally conquered by Egypt, nor was it overrun 

 by the Dervishes after the Mahdi's revolt. It may be said that during the 

 attenuated life of the Egyptian Administration under Emin Pasha, Latuka 

 preserved an attitude of friendly neutrality, which it continued to the 

 British Administration during and after the mutiny of the Sudanese 



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soldiers. It is a populous country, governed by powerful chiefs, who many 

 of them talk Arabic, and all of whom dress in Arab costume. A number of 

 the Latuka have adopted Islam. This, and their partiality for Arab clothing. 

 lias tended to obscure their relationship to the nude and nomad Masai. 

 The fact remains, however, that of all existing languages their dialect 

 approaches nearest to the tongue of the Masai, which is separated from 

 them by many degrees of latitude and longitude. I regret that alone 

 among the important or interesting dialects of the Uganda Protectorate 

 Latuka finds no place in my collected vocabularies. Such knowledge of 



