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advancing farther and farther southward down the Zan- 
gian coast, pushed on by their remorseless foes the 
Somali. At present the G-allas are nearing Mombasa, 
and the Somali have begun to approach the banks of 
the Tana river. Inland the southern boundary of the 
Galla extension is at present the Sabaki river. On 
the west they border on Ukambani, the country of the 
A-kamba, a Bantu race, and farther north they march 
with the Masai district till about 4° or 5° N. of the 
Equator, when, as far as we know, tribes of Nilotic 
negroes become their western neighbours. Apparently, 
as time goes on, they will come betwixt hammer and 
anvil. The Somali will push them farther and farther 
west, while the Masai will force them to recoil east¬ 
wards to avoid his savage raids. Thus their future is 
rather gloomy. Perhaps the best thing they can do 
is to advance towards the Nile and Abyssinia. 
There is a curious colony of Nilotic negroes settled 
in the district of Kavirondo on the eastern bank of 
the Victoria Nyanza, surrounded on all sides by tribes 
of Bantu and Masai race. From what we know of their 
language, philologically, at any rate, they are closely 
related to the Siluk people of the White Nile, and 
must represent a curious and isolated colony of Nile 
negroes, the remnant of some former invasion now 
surrounded on all sides by people of alien origin. 
They are only known as yet from the descriptions of 
Swahili traders, and no European has yet visited their 
country save the hasty coasting trip along their shores 
which Stanley made when circumnavigating the Vic¬ 
toria Nyanza. 
Thomson has explored the country to the north of 
Kavirondo, and we learn from him that there the people 
are Bantu, speaking apparently a language closely 
