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NOETH-EAST AFKICA. 



Shuli, and Shilluks, showing affinities rather with that of the Niam-Niam. This 

 difference in speech and resemblance in customs is doubtless due to the presence of 

 two ethnical elements now fused in one nation. The foreign intruders probably came 

 from the south-west, where the Madi occupy the water-parting between the Nile and 

 Congo basins, and where they are conterminous with the Kalika, allied to them in 

 speech and origin. 



In the Madi territory the chief Egyptian station is Dufilé (^Dufli), on the west 

 bank of the Nile, near the great bend it describes before its confluence with the Asua. 

 It occupies the apex of the triangle formed by the two streams and by the 



Fiar. 33.— Shuli Musicians. 



Somerset Nile between Foweira and Magungo, over against another river navigable 

 for some 12 miles. Thanks to this important strategical position, Dufilé cannot 

 fail to become a large centre of trade. Here is the station of the steamers on the 

 Upper Nile, which is obstructed farther down by the Fola Rapids. Bej^ond its 

 palm- groves are visible the peaks of the Kuku range, rising at some points 600 or 

 700 feet above the river. Between these hills and the Bahr-el- Jebel are the fortified 

 posts of Lahore and Mugi, near the Yerbora Rapids, while southwards Dufilé is con- 

 nected with Fatiko by the populous village of Faloro, one of the granaries of 

 Egyptian Sudan. The fields of the Madi in this district are cultivated with great 

 care by the women and children, who sow each grain of corn separately. 



