380 A TROPICAL DEPENDENCY slopes of the Himalayan Mountains." He puts forward as a suggestion that the same migrations of Hindu origin may have given us the Hyksos and the gypsies and the Fulani. He does not regard the question as having been yet decisively examined, and he appeals to anthropologists and philologists to assist in its scientific elucidation by comparison between the racial characteristics and the dialects of the Fulani, the gypsies, and certain existing pastoral tribes in India. As a result of some slight study of his own of gypsy language he adds, "I think I may say that of all African, Asiatic, Oceanian, and European tongues which I have compared with the language of the Fulani, the language of the gypsies is that which appears to me to possess the greatest point of resemblance." In connection with the theory of the descent of the Fulani from the Hyksos, I would quote the great similarity observed by my husband to exist between the Wahuma of Eastern Africa and the Fulani of the Western Soudan. The Wahuma, like the Fulani, were pastoral nomads who, in the endeavour to secure fresh grazing ground, became invaders and conquerors. In Uganda, Unyoro, Karagwe, and other eastern states the Wahuma founded the royal dynasties, while their tribesmen, corresponding in position to the Cow Fulani, tended the cattle of the negroids. The Wahuma, who have a great physical likeness to the Fulani, are often strikingly handsome and extremely intelligent. That the Wahuma should have descended upon East Africa from the valley of the Nile is not surprising. Of both races, Fulani and Wahuma alike, it can at least be said that they so far support the theory of a common origin in the Hyksos, as to have maintained through all their history, in the diverse countries in which they are to be found, the ancient position of Shepherd Kings.