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Title: The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude
Identifier: cu31924087982504 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: African languages; Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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836 MASAI, TUEKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. â of the Egyptian Sudan, became somewhat Arabised by the Arabs and Nubians, who, under the protection of Egypt, invaded these regions of the Upper Nile as slave- and ivory-traders some fifty years ago. The country of the Latuka was never formally conquered by Egypt, nor was it overrun by the Dervishes after the Mahdi's revolt. It may be said that during the attenuated life of the Egyptian Administration under Emin Pasha, Latuka preserved an attitude of friendly neutrality, which it continued to the British Administration during and after the mutiny of the Sudanese
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464. K.iHAM0JO PEOPLE soldiers. It is a populous country, governed by powerful chiefs, who many of them talk Arabic, and all of whom dress in Arab costume. A number of the Latuka have adopted Islam. This, and their partiality for Arab clothing, has tended to obscure their relationship to the nude and nomad Masai. The fact remains, however, that of all existing languages their dialect approaches nearest to the tongue of the Masai, which is separated from them by many degrees of latitude and longitude. I regret that alone among the important or interesting dialects of the Uganda Protectorate Latuka finds no place in my collected vocabularies. Such knowledge of

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