ABSTRACT
The linguistic affinity between Didiga, Logarim, and Murle is recognized by such authorities as Baumann, Seligman, Cerulli, Driberg, and Bryan, and they also share a number of cultural and physical resemblances. Certainly in the past the relations between these tribes must have been much closer, owing, perhaps, to the fact that they were nearer to each other and the frontiers of each group must have been open to kindred groups. Along the trade route between the Pibor Murle and the Logarim, which passes through the Lopit Hills, there was, at the time Driberg was writing, a Murle-Logarim village on the most northern point of the hill which had always been inhabited and which was regarded as a meeting place for strangers.1
