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THROUGH TUEKAXA AND SUK 



Their language belongs to the Miotic stock. They call 

 themselves Eaupe and Gurut, but whether these names are 

 merely distinctive terms for two different portions of the 

 inhabitants, or whether one means the sedentary and the other 

 the nomad people, we were unable to ascertain. 



^*^'S 



A SUK MAIDEN. 



The district occupied by the Suk lies between 0° 50^ and 

 1° 50^ N. latitude. It is bounded on the west by the Suk 

 range of mountains, and on the east by two parallel chains 

 of heights. 



Half the Suk are nomad cattle-breeders, the other half 



