See also:

• BAGGARA (" Cowherds ")

BAGGARA (" Cowherds ")  , See also:

• AFRICAN

African " See also:

• ARABS

Arabs of Semitic origin, so called because they are See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle owners and breeders . They occupy the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of the See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile between the See also:

• SHILLUK

Shilluk territory and See also:

• DAR

Dar Nuba, being found principally in See also:

• KORDOFAN

Kordofan . They are true See also:

• NOMAD (Gr. voµas, voµabes, wandering)

nomad Arabs, having intermarried little with the Nuba, and have preserved most of their See also:

• NATIONAL

national characteristics . The date of their arrival in the See also:

• SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan is uncertain: they appear to have drifted up the Nile valley and to have dispossessed the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original Nuba See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population . A purely See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral See also:

• PEOPLE

people, they move from pasture to pasture, as See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food becomes deficient . The true See also:

• BAGGARA (" Cowherds ")

Baggara tribesmen employ oxen as See also:

• SADDLE (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Sattel, Dut. zadel, also in Russ. siedlo and Lat. sella, for sedla; it is not derived directly from Lat. sedile, which means a chair, but all the words are to be referred to the root sad-, which gives

saddle and See also:

• PACK (apparently from the root pak-, paq-, seen in Lat. pangere, to fasten; cf. " compact ")
• PACK, OTTO VON (c. 1480-1537)

pack animals, carry no See also:

• SHIELD (0. Eng. scild, cf. Du. and Ger. Schild, Dan. Skjold; the origin is doubtful, but may be referred to the root seen in " shell " or " scale "; another suggestion connects it with Icel. skjalla, to clash, rattle; it is not connected with the Indo-Ger
• SHIELD, WILLIAM (1748—1829)

shield, and though many possess firearms the customary weapons are See also:

• LANCE

lance and See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword . They have always had the reputation of being resolute fighters . Engaged from the earliest times in the slave See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, they were among the first, as they were certainly the most fervent, sup-porters of the See also:

• MANDI

mandi when he See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose in revolt against the Egyptians (1882) . They constituted his real fighting force, and to their fanatical courage his victories were due . Their decision to follow him out of their own country to See also:

• KHARTUM

Khartum brought about the fall of that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . The mandi's successor, the See also:

• KHALIFA, THE

khalifa Abdullah, was a Baggara, and throughout his See also:

• RULE

rule the tribe held the first See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in his favour . They have been described as " men who look the fiends they really are—of most sinister expression, with See also:

• MURDER

murder and every See also:

• CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime speaking from their See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

savage eyes .

Courage is their only See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good quality." They are famous, too, as hunters of big See also:

• GAME

game, attacking even elephants with sword and See also:

• SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)

spear, G . A . See also:

• SCHWEINFURTH, GEORG AUGUST (1836– )

Schweinfurth declares them the best-looking of the Nile nomads, and the men are types of See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical beauty, with See also:

• FINE

fine heads, erect athletic bodies and sinewy limbs . There is little that is Semitic in their See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance . Their skins vary in See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour from a dark red-See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown to a deep See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black; but their features are See also:

• REGULAR

regular and See also:

• FREE

free of See also:

• NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

negro characteristics . In See also:

• MENTAL

mental See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power they are much See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior to the indigenous races around them . They have a See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion for fine clothes and ornaments, tricking themselves out with See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass trinkets, rings and articles of See also:

• IVORY (Fr. ivoire, Lat. ebur)
• IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765-1842)

ivory and See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

horn . Their mode of See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair-dressing (See also:

• MOP

mop-See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion) earned them, in See also:

• COMMON

common with the See also:

• HADENDOA (from Beja Hada, chief, and endowa, people)

Hadendoa, the name of " Fuzzy-wuzzies " among the See also:

• BRITISH

British soldiers in the See also:

• CAMPAIGNS

campaigns of 1884–98 . See G . A . Schweinfurth, See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

Heart of See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa (1374) ; See also:

• SIR

Sir F . R .

See also:

• WINGATE, SIR FRANCIS REGINALD (1861- )

Wingate, Mandism and the See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian Sudan (1891), Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count See also:

• GLEICHEN

Gleichen (19o5); A . H . See also:

• KEANE, JOHN JOSEPH (1839– )

Keane, See also:

• ETHNOLOGY

Ethnology of the Egyptian Sudan (1884) .