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related to Lu-ganda and Ki-nyoro. The nearest kins¬ 
men, therefore, of this Siluk colony on the Victoria 
Nyanza, would seem to be the Lur people who inhabit 
the north-western bank of the Albert Nyanza, in 4° 
N. latitude. I think it very probable that, at any 
rate in language, the Siluk race is a distant relative 
of the Masai. The Bari tongue, one of the most 
northern members of the Masai group, betrays in its 
vocabulary a resemblance to certain languages of the 
V 
Siluk family which can hardly be accidental or be 
accounted for by a theory of loan-words. The same 
thing occurs also with the Dinka, as Lepsius pointed 
out in the preface to his “ Nuba Grammar.” 2 
Much yet remains to be ascertained about the re¬ 
lationships and affinities of the reported dwarf races 
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2 The following comparison of a few words in Suli (a Siluk 
dialect) and Bari may be interesting to the reader:— 
v 
Suli. 
English. 
^Kavirondo & Lur.) 
Bari. 
Goat 
Mindiel 
Metyo. 
Cow 
Diaii 
Kiten. 
Leopard 
Kuac 
Koka. 
Crocodile 
Nyah 
Ki-nyon. 
Rain 
Kot 
Kudu. 
Water 
Pi 
Piom. 
Blood 
Remo 
Rema. 
Honey 
Kic 
CL 
House 
At 
Kadi (Masai, Aji). 
Cloth 
Obono 
Baho. 
Knife 
Pala 
Wale (Masai, Alem). 
Ashes 
Vurr 
Kuren (Ko-purot, smoke). 
Wood 
Tim 
Mudim (Masai, Dim). 
Brook 
Kulu 
Kolotok. 
Man 
Netyo 
Nuto. 
Hose 
Ume 
Kume. 
Evening 
Otieno 
Kotian. 
Sand 
Kuoyo 
Kujo. 
A little 
Tidi 
Ko-dik (Masai, Ku-titi). 
To count 
Ken 
Ken (Masai, Iken), 
&C. 
Vide “Comparative Vocabulary of Masai,” chap. xx. 
