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APPENDIX II. 



Janghey 



Jibba 



Bonjak 



Balok 



Fallanj 



Niwak 



Koma 



Suro 



Amam 



Bari 



Monbuttu 



Zandeh . 



Mittu {Mattu) 



Bongo (Dor) 



Shir 



Rol. 



Agar 



Sofi 



Lehsi 



Nicer 



Dinka 



Shilluk 



Dwiiir 



jiyarr 



Mok 



Tandy 



But 



Ayell 



Takruri 



)■ Lower Sobat Basin. 



Both sides Bahr-el-Jebel, 4" — 5° N., limited noithward by the Shir territory. 

 About headwaters of the river "Welle, beyond the Egyptian frontier. 

 From south-west frontier Egyptian Sudan for unknown distance westwards ; are 

 the Niam-Niam of the Nilotic tribes. 



A-Madi 



Î,, ,.\, \ Moro district north of Monbuttuland. The Mittu call iheir country 



Madi-Kaya 

 Abbakah 

 Luba 



Upper Course Tondy and Jur rivers, thence to Zandeh frontier. 

 Bahr-el-Jebel 5° — 6' N., between the Dinka and Bari territories. 



Moro, which is not an ethnical but a geographical name (Schweiu- 

 furth, "Heart of Africa," i. p. 403). 



Funj 



Krej 

 Fertit 



\ Tribes of uncertain affinity along Rol river, east of the Bongo and Mittu. 



\ ■' I Along lower course Bahr-el-Jebel, 7" — 9° N. 



, Abuyo, Agar, Ajak, 



IAliab, Arol, Atwot, ( Along Bahr-el-Jebel, and right bank White Nile, 6' — 12" 

 Awan, Bor, Donjol, ( N. Largest of all the Nilotic Negro tribes (Beltrame). 

 - Jur, Gok, Rish 



( ^'^f ''J^>'^''>^' I Left bank Bahr-el-Jebel and White Nile, 9°— la^N". 

 (. Dyok, Roah ) 



! Unclassed tribes south of the Dinkas north-east of the. Bongos, 7° — 8" N., 

 j between Molmul and Rual rivers ; probably akin to the Bongos. 



; 



Gallibat district, Abyssinian frontier, originally from Dar-Fur (James's '• Wild 



Tribes of the Sudan," p. 30). 

 The dominant race in Senaar, supposed to be of Shilluk stock, but now largely 



mixed with the Arabs of that region. 



\ About headwaters of the Bahr-el-Arab, beyond Egyptian frontier. 



III. NUBA GROUP. 



The Nobatse of Diocletian are coramonly assumed to be the modern Nubians. But, 

 although not yet recognised in British official reports, the Nubian race and name 

 have even a more venerable antiquity than this statement would imply. In a passage 

 quoted in note 22 we find mention already made by Strabo of the Noî/3at ; and in another 

 passage the same writer, who flourished three hundred years before the time, of 

 Diocletian, describes these Nubse as " a great nation "dwelling in Libya, that is, Africa, 

 along the left bank of the Nile from Meroe to the bends of the river.* The word itself 

 has even been identified by some writers with the land of JVub or JVoh, that is, " Gold," 

 the region about Mount Elbeh on the Eed Sea coast over against Jiddah, where the 

 Egyptians worked the precious metal from the remotest times. 



But this identification must be rejected since the discovery that the cradle of the 



* 'EC upi(TTfpù>v et pvaiiDç Tov NtiXou ^uvjiai Ka-uiKovaiv iv rij AifSvy, fi'iya tOrog, &c. (Book 17, 

 p. 1117, Oxford éd., 1807.1 



