CORRIGENDA.

Owing to Canon Taylor's absence from England he had no

opportunity of revising the proofs of his paper on "The Origin

and Primitive Seat of the Aryans," in the February number of

the Journal.

The following misprints should be corrected:-

Page 240, note 2, for "fiuk-ta," read "fiuh-ta."

243, line 10, for "that directed," read "directed that."

243,

41, for "man," read “race."

14, for "time," read "line."

249, 12, for "Ayran," read “Aryan."

259,

دو

25, for "Aestiæi," read" Aestui."

8, for "Kultur-wörten," read "Kultur-wörter."

43, for "race," read "first."

44, for "first," read "race."

2, before "Aryan," insert " developed."

6, for "verbal," read "verbal root."

15, before "lug," insert "the root."

30, for "-σrn-μ," read "i-Oтη-μ."

43, for "orginated," read "originated."

14, for "Finnische," read" Finnischen."

259, No. 1, for “cock," read "crake."
2, for "hals," read "hag."

251,

255,

259,

259,

دو

2A, for "cace," read "cacc."

3, for "hestitate," read "hesitate."

4, for "hut," read "German hut."

4, for "33-34," read "33--44."

6, for "cataya," read "çataya;" and for "hate," read" käte."

7, for "gemo," read "canto."

9, for “ κόπτω,” read “ κάμπτω ”

9, for "Keltic cam, bent," read "Lithuanian kampas, crooked;

Greek καμπή.”

10, for Lithuanian kampas, crooked; Greek каμrn," read

12, for "make work," read "make, work," and for "carve,"

read "Sanskrit har-man, work."

14, for "coracle," read "carol."

17, for "garden, hortus," read "circus ;" and for "Xóρros,

χορός,” read “ κυρτός, κρίκος.”

18, for "turn," read "burn."

19, for "call," read " calends."

21, for "command," read" commend."

22, for "KAR," read "KAS."

23, for "KER," read "KU;" for "coelam," read "coelum;" for

262, line 6, for "ken," read "kan.”

and for "kavis," read "kavio."

262, 40, for "taatt," read "taatto."

262,

دو

22, for "marzcicos," read "marczios."

Page 263, line 32, for “10.” read "10, namely,"

264,

267,

267,

5, for "catam," read " çatam.'

33, after we have," insert "the Aryan and Finnic pairs."
12, for "girded," read "is girded."
1, for "gaz," read "
qaz."
8, for "kulla," read kulea."
11, before "gule," insert “ Mongol."
27, for "uruda," read "urudu."
7, for "sil-al," read "sil-at."

13, omit "salt."

38, for "beast," read "heart."

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On the TRIBES of the NILE VALLEY, NORTH of KHARTUM. By SIR CHARLES W. WILSON, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.C.L., F.R.S. [WITH PLATE I.]

IN offering the present paper to the Anthropological Institute, I must apologise for its incompleteness. I have attempted to throw some light on the tribal history and relations of the people who live in the Nile Valley north of Khartúm. The subject is one of great difficulty and obscurity from the almost entire absence of written records, and from the extraordinary way in which the races have in many cases been mixed up. It is curious, for instance, to see how completely the indigenous population has, in certain cases, lost its nationality whilst absorbing its Arab conquerors; and how Hamitic, Semitic, and Núba tribes alike claim descent from the Koreish of Mecca. My own observation was limited; I only came into personal contact with a few of the tribes; but I had to make enquiries about the others for the purposes of the Nile Expedition. These enquiries were naturally as to the political relations of the tribes, and this must account for the absence of scientific details in my paper. Active service is not favourable to scientific observation as regards ethnological questions; the disturbance of the population is too great, and the people are too excited, too frightened, and too interested to be natural. The only way to gain the confidence of natives is to live amongst them until they become accustomed to your ways, and cease to be frightened or shy. If natives once see that you know their habits, and understand and like them, you can get almost anything you like out of them. This is, perhaps, especially the case with Arabs, who are naturally great gossips, but who are at the same time extremely suspicious and believe that some ulterior motive must underlie any leading or abrupt question. As far as my observation went there is little to add to the account which Burckhardt gave of the Núba, though the country, owing to Egyptian misgovernment, has greatly changed for the worse since his visit.

The tribes of the Nile Valley north of Khartúm may conveniently be divided into three groups; the Hamitic, the Semitic, and the Núba. I propose, however, in the first place to say a few words on the Arab tribes north of Assúan, for they form as it were a group apart.

These Arabs may be called semi-nomads, for in nearly every case one portion of the tribe lives in houses or villages, whilst the other lives on the borders of the cultivated district; some of the