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BmU 



Ennedi . 

 Zoqhûtca . 



North Dar-Fiir, thence north- westwards to Wanganya and Borku ; speech akin 

 to the Dasa or Southern libu ; type Negroid. 



Ftilah 



Berber Branch. 



West Dar-Fur, where a few Fulah communities have penetrated in recent times 

 from the Tsad basin. 



Masai proper 



Kwaf, 



Wa-Suk 



Andorobbo 



Masai Branch. 



A widespread and powerful nation, who occupy nearly the Mffhole region east of 

 Lake Victoria Nyauza, between the parallels of Mount Kilimanjaro and 

 IMount Chibcharagnani (3° S. — 1° N.) Type quite distinct from the 

 surrounding Bantu and Negro, and apparently allied to the Hamitic GaUas. 

 Language also appears to be remotely connected with the Hamitic family. 

 Twelve main divisions, of which the chief are Ngajè, Molilian, Lvserè, and 

 Leteyo. " These have the finest physical development and— but ibr a 

 prominence of the cheek-bones, a tendency to a Mongolian shape and upward 

 slant of the eyes, the choculate-coloured skin, and the hair with a tendency to 

 become frizzy — they might pass muster as very respectable and commonplace 

 Europeans. The Ngajè-Masai are the purest breed, and are to be found 

 chiefly around Kilimanjaro." (" Through Masai Land," jj. 413.) 



A sub-branch of the Masai, who seem to have suffered degradation by mixture 

 with the Negro population. Their original home was Mbaravui Land, between 

 Kilimanjaro and U-Sambara, west and east. Since 1830 have been scattered 

 in all directions by the Masai, with whom, however, they now live peaceably 

 in many districts. Some have been evangelised. 



Large and po we if ul nation, north of Masai Land, in the highlands some thirty 

 miles beyond Lake Baringo, and in the northern parts of Lykipia, whence thej' 

 have expelled the Masai. "They are strong-btmed, ugly looking fellows, 

 though their heads are not markpdly Negroid." ('Through Masai Land," 

 p. 529.) Joseph Thomson tells ns that their language is distinctly allied to 

 the Masai, and this explorer considers that " they doubtless furm a connecting 

 link between the latter rac& and the Nile tribes" {ib. p. 531). 



A hunting tribe scattered in very small communities over Masai Land, especially 

 in the dense forests of Kenia, Kikuyu, the Mau range, Chibcharagnani, and 

 other places where the elephant abounds. In appearance they resemble .the 

 lower class of Masai, to whose language their speech is also allied. By the 

 Masai themselves " they are on the whole looked upon as a species of serf, and 

 treated accordingly." ("Through Masai Land," p. 448.) 



South Ethiopian Branch. 

 Oromo or Galla. 



The word Omri may serve in a way to connect the Tibu Hamites with the Galla, a 

 chief branch of the Eastern Hamites, who also call themselves Oromo, Orma, Ormu = 

 men. To these Eastern Hamites, who skirt the Indian Ocean and the Eed Sea from 

 the Equator to Egypt, and of whom the ancient Egyptians themselves were a branch, 

 the vague terms C'ushite and Ethiopian are frequently applied. By the intervening 

 Abyssinian highlands they are divided into a southern and a northern group, the chief 

 branches of the former being the Afars (Dankali), the Somali, Galla, Kaffa,* and 

 outlying "Wa-Huma ; of the latter, the Saho, Bogos, or Bilin (?), Beja, or Bishari ; the 

 old Egyptians, modern Kopts, and Fellahin, besides the Agau and some other scattered 

 communities in Abyssinia. 



* At Keren, in the Bogos country, Leo Reinisch tells us that in 1880 he picked up enough of the 

 Kaffa language from three slaves to determine its connection with the Hamitic family. To the same 

 connection he refers the Agaumeder and Khamant of Gondar, and some others on the north frontier of 

 Abyssinia, about whose true affinities some doubt still prevails (" Oesterreichische Monatschr. f. den 

 Orient," March 15, 1884, p. 94). 



