LEGAS  , one of the See also:

• SHANGALLA

Shangalla See also:

• GROUP

group of tribes, regarded as among the purest types of the Galla See also:

• RACE

race . They occupy the upper Yabus valley, S.W . See also:

• ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA)

Abyssinia, near the See also:

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

Sudan frontier . The Legas are physically distinct from the See also:

• NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

Negro Shangalla . They are of very See also:

• LIGHT

light complexion, tall and thin, with narrow hollowcheeked faces, small heads and high foreheads . The chiefs' families are of more mixed See also:

• BLOOD

blood, with perceptible Negro See also:

• STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

strain . The Legas are estimated to number upwards of a See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred thousand, of whom some 20,000 are warriors . They are, however, a peaceful race, See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind to their See also:

• WOMEN

women and slaves, and energetic agriculturists . Formerly See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent, they came about 1900 under the sway of Abyssinia . The Legas are pagans, but Mahommedanism has gained many converts among them .