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THE KILIMA-NJABO EXPEDITION. 
Baringo, and observes that their language resembles 
Masai to a certain extent, with, however, distinct 
differences. What these differences are he does not 
tell us, and therefore we cannot conjecture, in the 
absence of inf ormation, what affinities the Sublanguage 
may display. 
The researches of Dr. Emin-Bey (the governor of 
the Egyptian Equatorial provinces, whose fate is still 
uncertain) throw a certain amount of light on the 
northern members of the Masai family of languages. 
He gives us a vocabulary of the Latuka language (of 
which a few words were also gathered by Sir Samuel 
Baker), and places the position of the Latuka people 
in about 5° N. of the Equator, where they are nearly 
surrounded by the negro tribes (and languages) of 
Madi, Suli, and others. Dr. Emin-Bey says the Latuka 
belongs to the Lahgo cluster, farther south, calls the 
Lahgo a Galla language, and remarks that the Latuka 
also evinces Galla affinities. In these suppositions 
I am disposed to disagree with him. The Latuka 
language has absolutely less relationship with the 
Galla than the few slight and doubtful signs exhibited 
by the Masai: and the probability is that, as the 
Latuka is said to be closely related to the Lahgo, this 
latter language is also of the Masai group. Though 
the Latuka tongue differs considerably from Masai 
proper, perhaps to the extent of fifty per cent., in the 
small vocabulary collected by Dr. Emin-Bey, there is, 
however, no doubt whatever that it is a language of 
the same family, and I shall endeavour to show in the 
appended vocabulary that it agrees in many test-words 
and essential points with Masai. The only other 
known tongue which can at present be said to form 
an independent member of this family is the Bari, a 
