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APPENDIX II.

A SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF ALL THE RACES AND TRIBES OF NORTH-EAST AFRICA.[1]


I. BANTU GROUP.

Wa-Ganda North-west side Victoria Nyanza, from the Somerset to the Alexandria Nile (Tanguré), the most numerous and powerful Bantu nation in the region of the Great Lakes.
Wa-Nyoro Between Somerset Nile and Albert Nyanza.
Wa-Soga East from the Somerset Nile.
Wa-Gamba East from the Wa-Soga territory; limits undefined.
Wa-Karagwé West side Victoria Nyanza, from the Alexandria Nile southwards to the Wa-Zinza territory.
Wa-Songora West side of the Victoria Nyanza, between the Wa-Karagwé and the coast.
Wa-Sambara South-east coast Victoria Nyanza, north of Speke Gulf.
Wa-Tutwa South of Speke Gulf.
Wa-Sukuma Large nation with numerous subdivisions (Wa-Rima, Wa-Vîra, Wa-Smas, Wa-Hindi, &c.), south coast Victoria Nyanza, south of Speke Gulf.
Wa-Zinza South coast Victoria Nyanza, west from the Wa-Sukuma,
Wa-Nyambo Large tribe in Karagwé; speak the Zongora language, a distinct Bantu dialect.

II. NEGRO GROUP.

Numerically the Negro is by far the most important element in Egyptian Sudán. It is in almost undisturbed possession, not only of the main stream from the great lakes to and beyond the Sobat junction, but also of the Sobat Valley itself, and of the countless headwaters of the White Nile converging from the west and south-west at Lake No, above the Sobat junction. Within this area is probably concentrated one-half of the population of the whole Nile basin, from the equatorial lakes to the Mediterranean, a population which has been roughly estimated at about forty millions. Here are several large and powerful Negro nations, some still enjoying political autonomy, such as the Zandeh (Nyam-Nyam), the Mittu, and the Monbuttu, who occupy the low water-parting between the Nile, Congo, and Tsad basins, some brought within the limits of the Khedive's possessions, such as the Bari and Nuer

  1. Enlarged from A. H. Keane's "Ethnology of Egyptian Sudán." London: 1884.