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