Handbook to the ethnographical collections . the seventh century, and has profoundly affected theoriginal inhabitants ; the Mahdist movement, in which the Baggarajdayed a i)rominent part, completed the growing ethnic confusion,wliicli it is now extremely difficult to disentangle. Matters havebeen complicated by the fact that many tribes have adojDtedfictitious genealogies in order to boast of an Arabian origin. In 190 AFRICA the same way, a great number of elements liave combined invarious proportions to form the population of Abyssinia ; Negro,Semite and Hamite are all represented. South of A
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . the seventh century, and has profoundly affected theoriginal inhabitants ; the Mahdist movement, in which the Baggarajdayed a i)rominent part, completed the growing ethnic confusion,wliicli it is now extremely difficult to disentangle. Matters havebeen complicated by the fact that many tribes have adojDtedfictitious genealogies in order to boast of an Arabian origin. In 190 AFRICA the same way, a great number of elements liave combined invarious proportions to form the population of Abyssinia ; Negro,Semite and Hamite are all represented. South of Abyssiniaare the true Hamites, Galla (Oromo), Somali, and Danakil (Afar).The fii-st named appear to have i-eached the African coast Ixforethe others, and the pressure of the Somali behind them inducedthem to move towards the south-east, the Somali occupying theground which they evacuated : hence the existence of serf tribesof Galla among the southern Somali. The fact that an originalnegro population was displaced by the Galla seems proved by. Fig. 16( -Throwiiig chiljs from the Nile Egyptian. h. Modern, c, d. existence amongst them of negroid tribes in a similar condition ofdependence. The south-eastward movement of the Galla did not,however, continue long; the Masai, apparently connected withthem both l)y blood and by culture, diove them back in a northerlydirection, until they came into contact with the Danakil, the lasttribe to ariive, with whom to some extent they intermingled. Thenorthward ex})ansion, however, did not cease there, with theresult that a strong Galla element is to be found in the j^opulationof southern Abyssinia. During the early struggles with thewarlike negroes of the south-east, it would seem that a branch ofGalla penetrated inland, establishing themselves on the north and AFRICA 191 east of Victoria Nyanza, vvliere they are known to-day variously asBaHima, WaTusi, WaRuanda, and so forth. Throughout this area clothing is now made principa
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