BOGOS (BILENs)  , a pastoral race of mixed Hamitic descent, occupying the highlands immediately north of Abyssinia, now part of the Italian colony of Eritrea . They were formerly a self-governing community, though subject to Abyssinia . The community is divided into two classes, the Shumaglieh or " elders " and Tigre or " clients." The latter are serfs of the former, who, however, cannot sell them . The Tigre goes with the land, and his master must protect him . In blood-money he is worth another Tigre or ninety-three cows, while an elder's life is valued at one hundred and fifty-eight cattle or one of his own caste . The eldest son of a Shumaglieh inherits his father's two-edged sword, white cows, lands and slaves, but the house goes to the youngest son . Female chastity is much valued, but women have no rights, inherit nothing, and are classed with the hyaena, the most despised animal throughout Abyssinia . The Bogo husband never sees the face or pronounces the name of his mother-in-law, while it is a crime for a wife to utter her husband's or father-in-law's name .