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 APPENDIX n. 469 Ba»U North Dar-Fur, thence north* west wards to Wanganya and Botlni; apeecb •Hn to Uio Daaa or Southern 1 ibu ; typo Nogruid. Fuhh BtuHKu Dkanch. Weat Dar-Fur, where a few Fulah conunonities have penetrated in reoent timaa from the Taad baain. Matai proper Kwajl Wa-Suk. Andorobbo Masai Bhanch. A widoapread and powerful nation, who occupy nearly the whole region aant of Luke VJctoriii Nyaiiza, between the parallels of Mount Kilimanjaro and Muunt Chilwharagnani (3' S.— T N.) Typo quite diatinct from the sui rounding Uuntu and Negro, and apparently allied to the Ilamitic Gallas. Language also apptan* to b« remotely connected with the Hamitic family. Twelve main divnijous, of which the chief are Ngaje, Mulilian, Lyseri, and Lcteyo. *• These have the finest physical developmout and— but for a prominence of the cheek-btites, a tendency to a Mongolian shape and upward slant of the eyes, the chocolate-coloured skin, and the hair with a tendency to become frizzy— they might {ass muster an veiy re«pectaJ.le and commonplace Europeans. The Ngaje- Masai are the puiest breed, and are to be found chiefly around Kilimanjaro." ("llirough Masai Land," p. 413.) A sub-branch of the Masai, who sct-m to have suffered degradntion by mixture with the Negro population. Their otiginal home was Mbumvui Land, betwo< n Kilimnnjaro and U-Sambaia, west and east. Since 1830 have been scattered in all directions by the Misai, with whom, however, they now live peaceably in many districts. Some have been evangolised. Large and poweiful nation, north of Masai Land, in the highlands some thirty miles beyond Lake Baringc, and in the northern parts of Lykipia, whence they have expelled the Masai. "They are stxoi'g-bt ned, ugly looking fellows, though their heads are not markedly Negroid." ('Through ^lasai Land," p. 629.) Joseph lliomson tells us that their language is distineily allied to the Masai, a> d this exploier considers that " they doubtless form a connecting link between the latter race and the Nile tiibes" (lA. p. 631). A huutir.g tnbe scattered in very small communities over Masai Land, especially in the dense forests of Kcnia, Kikuyu, the Mau range, Chibcharagnani, and other pluces where the elephant abounds. In appearance they resemble the lower class of Masai, to whoso language their speech is also allied. By the Mssai themselves " they are on the whole looked upon aa a species of 8«^rf, and tieated accoidingly." (" Through Masai Laud," p. 448.) SotTH Ethiopian' Bbanch. Oromo OB Galla. The word Omri may serve in a way to connect the Tibu Ilamites with the Galla, a chief branch of the Eastern Hamites, who also call themselves Oromo, Orma, Ormu = men. To these Eastern Hamites, who skirt the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea from the Equator to Egj'pt. and of whom the ancitnt Egyptians themselves were a branch, the vagwe terms Cushite and Ethiopian are frequently applied. By tlie intervening Abyssinian highlands they are divided into a southern and a northern group, the chief branches of the former being the Afars (Dankali), the Somali, Galla, Kaffa,* and outlying Wa-Huma ; of the latter, the Saho, Bogos, or Bilin (?), Beja, or Bishari ; the old Egy])tian8, modern Kopta, and Fellahin, besides the Agau and some other scattered communities in Abyssinia. Kaffa langtmge from three slaves to determine its connection with the Usmitic family. To the same c mncction he refers the Ag^umeder and Khamant of Gondar, and some otheta on the north frontier of Abyssinia, about whose true affinities some doubt still prevail* (** Oe ich iache Monatschr. f. den Oiient," March 16, 1881, p. 94).
 * At Keren, in the Bogos countr>% Leo Reinisch te Is us that in 1880 he ptck«Kl up enough of the