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THE KILIMA-NJABO EXPEDITION. 
Ocean ; the A-nyika, A-digo, Wa-bondei, and the Arab¬ 
ized Wa-swahili on the coast between Lamu and the 
mouth of the Ruvu at Pangani; the Wa-sambara and 
Wa-zeguha that inhabit Usambara and the adjacent 
plains ; the Wa-taita of the Taita mountains, mid-way 
between Kilima-njaro and the coast; the Wa-pare and 
Wa-gweno, and, lastly, the Wa-taveita, dwelling to 
the south-east of Kilima-njaro; the Wa-kahe of the 
Upper Kuvu, and the Wa-eaga, who inhabit all but the 
northern flanks of the great snow-mountain. 
The north-eastern portion of this district, which I 
term Eastern Equatorial Africa, is mainly populated 
by the Galla and Somali peoples, two races bitterly 
opposed to one another, although closely related in 
blood and language. They form a remarkably distinct 
variety of man apparently midway between the Negro 
on the one hand and the Arab on the other. Their 
languages belong to the Ethiopic branch of the Hamitic 
family according to some, and according to others 
constitute (with their congeners) a separate and inde¬ 
pendent group, with certain undeniable approaches to 
the Semitic and Hamitic tongues. 
The region over which the Galla race exists is 
a curiously extended one, and yet often strangely 
restricted in width. They occupy, roughly speaking, 
a long, narrow strip of Eastern Africa scarcely exceed¬ 
ing, at the utmost, 200 miles in breadth, in fact more 
or less confined between the thirty-seventh and fortieth 
degree of east longitude, but nevertheless stretch¬ 
ing in a southerly direction from the twelfth parallel 
north of the Equator to the fourth parallel south, 
over a distance of some 1100 miles. The Gallas have 
largely mingled with the population of Abyssinia in 
North-Eastern Africa, and now they are every year 
