| Janghey | Lower Sobat Basin. | ||||
| Jibba | |||||
| Bonjak | |||||
| Balok | |||||
| Fallanj | |||||
| Niuak | |||||
| Koma | |||||
| Suro | |||||
| Amam | |||||
| Bari | Both sides Bahr-el-Jebel, 4° — 5° N., limited northward by the Shir territory. | ||||
| Monbuttu | About headwaters of the river Welle, beyond the Egyptian frontier. | ||||
| Zandeh | From south-west frontier Egyptian Sud&n for unknown distance westwards; are the Niam-Niam of the Nilotic tribes. | ||||
| Mittu (Maltu) | A-Madi | Moro district north of Monbuttuland. The Mittu call their country Moro, which is not an ethnical but a geographical name (Schwein-furth, "Heart of Africa," i. p. 403). | |||
| Madi-Kaya | |||||
| Abbkah | |||||
| Luba | |||||
| Bongo (Dor) | Upper Course Tondy and Jnr rivers, thence to Zandeh frontier. | ||||
| Shir | Bahr-el-Jebel 6° — 6' N., between the Diuka and Bari territories. | ||||
| Rol. | Tribes of uncertain affinity along Rol river, east of the Bongo and Mittu. | ||||
| Agar | |||||
| Sofi | |||||
| Lehsi | |||||
| Nuer | Byor | Along lower course Bahr-el-Jebel, 7°—9° N. | |||
| Ror | |||||
| Dinka | Abuyo, Agar, Ajak, Aliab, Arol, Atwot, Awan, Bor, Donjol, Jur, Gok, Rish, | Along Bahr-el-Jebel, and right bank White Nile, 6°—12° N. Largest of all the Nilotic Negro tribes (Beltrame). | |||
| Shilhik | Kwati, Dyakin, Dyok, Roah | Left bank Bahr-el-Jebel and White Nile, 9°— 12' N. | |||
| Dwuïr | Unclassed tribes south of the Dinkas, north-east of the Bongos, 7°— 8' N., between Molmul and Rual rivers; probably akin to the Bongos. | ||||
| Ayurr | |||||
| Mok | |||||
| Tondy | |||||
| Bot | |||||
| Ayell | |||||
| Tukruri | Gallibat district, Abyssinian frontier, originally from Dar-Fur (James's " Wild Tribes of the Sudan," p. 30). | ||||
| Funj | The dominant race in Senaar, supposed to be of Shilluk stock, but now largely mixed with the Arabs of that region. | ||||
| Krej | About headwaters of the Bahr-el-Arab, beyond Egyptian frontier. | ||||
| Fertit | |||||
III. NUBA GROUP.
The Nobatoo of Diocletian are commonly assumed to be the modern Nubians. But, although not yet recognised in British official reports, the Nubian race and name have even a more venerable antiquity than this statement would imply. In a passage quoted in note 22 we find mention already made by Strabo of the Νοῦβαι; and in another passage the same writer, who flourished three hundred years before the time of Diocletian, describes these Nubæ as "a great nation" dwelling in Libya, that is, Africa, along the left bank of the Nile from Meroe to the bends of the river.[1] The word itself has even been identified by some writers with the land of Nub or Nob, that is, "Gold," the region about Mount Elbeh on the Red Sea coast over against Jiddah, where the Egyptians worked the precious metal from the remotest times.
But this identification must be rejected since the discovery that the cradle of the
- ↑ Ἐξ άριστερῶν δὲ ρὕσεως τοῦ Νειλου Νοῦβαι κατοικοῦσιν εν τῆ Λιβύη, μἐγα ἔθνος, &c. (Book 17, p. 1117, Oxford ed., 1807.)
