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 APPENDIX n. 467 ffotumht. Kamtakim As-Shuma BrjHk Jtofoa (Si An)* TaiM4 jr«rM. Sabitrmt. IkmMm. Harrar Tiijri Amharm. Mudun ("ambar) < oa«t district about MuiSiwa and a« fiu- aa Aqiq. > Anaeba province, north-cast frontier of Abyiainia inland from Mudun. Beit-Bidol and Dcmbela dislricta, about the headstrcams of the Barka (Baraka) and Mareb (Uaah) rivera, west of Anseba. Abyssinian enclave in Somaliland, east from Shoa : 0' 40' N. ; 42' E. The prcdominHnt nation in North Abyiuiinia. The predominant nution in 8<iuth Abyssii.ia, now politically subject to the Tigr& She^gyth (Shaikieh). Robabat . Hauameh Homran . AbH'Rof . Shukrieh . Do&eina . Yemanieh Jalm {Jahaliu) KubabiihX Baqqdra (b) IsxABLmc OR Arab Bkanch. From Dongola along left bank Nile to Abu-Hammed. Noted for their extremely dark cotnploxioii, yet claiming to be of unmixed Arub dcuccnt. From Abu-Hiimmed to the AtlMira confluence. About the Atbara confluence, between the Robabat and Jalin north and south. 3Iiddle course of the .Atlmra and Mareb rivers hs far as the Bas^ (Kunama) territory. Widespread throughout West Senuar. Lower and Middle Atbara (left bank), and southwards to 8enaar. I MHinly about the Blue Nile confluence, Khartum district ; but widely diffused as traders and settlers ihroughuut Senaar, Taka, Kordofan, Dar-Fur, and eren Kaff.i.t Widely hpread west of the Nile between 12" — 15' N., but especially along the route from (»beid (Konlofari) to the Nile ut Dongilu. 'ITio name means " Goat- herds," although they arc ulso large breeders of horses and camels. Mainly south of the Kabiibish along wtsl bank of the Nile and Bahr-el-Arab neiirly to its source. The term Baqqata, unknown in the Arab national gene- alogies, has given rise to some mutunderstunding. It is not the name of any particular tribe, but an expression applied collectively to all tribes which breed and deal in cattle, in contradistinction to tho»e whoso wealth consists in horses and camcU. Hence there are Baqq&ra in many parts of Sud&n, although und bedienen sich des reinsten athiopiochcn Idioms, dea Tigr6" (Munziger, op. eil. p. 73). This use of the term "Ethiopian" is very confuting, as it is ulso, and more projM-rly, employed us the collective name of the eastern division of the Huniitic family. The Himyarites (.bys8inian8) are intruders from Arabia ; the Hamites are the true autoohthoms, hence best entitled to the title of " Ethiopian," which by the ancients was applied, although somewhat vaguely, to all the native populations stretching south from the frontier of Egypt proper. • The Bogos are clasMKl by Rcinisch (loe. eif. p. 94) with the Hamites, or " Kushit s," as he calls them. But ho elsewhere rii^htly afliliatus thorn to the Abyssinian Semites, as sim aUing a pure Tigri (Geez) dialect, herein agreeing with ^lunziger in his •« Ostufrikanische Studen," who is our best autho* rity on these fragmentary ethnical groups (m the north and north-eabt frontiers of Abyssinia. t The Jalin claim spi-ciul cfmsideratiim as the most numerous, intelligent, and purtst of all the Sudane.te Arabs. They imce their descent from Abl)aa, uncle of the I*rophet ; but thtir Arabic speech, preserved and spoken with great purity, indicat«'8 the Hejas as their original home The chief Jalin tribes, as enumerated by Munziger, are : Muhammadab, Mikringa Bagelab, Tadieh, GebAlab, Kaliab, Gum- mieh, Gummeab, Qeresbab Nifeab, Sadob. Jaudallahab, Mekabemb, Meirefab, Mosellfniab, (hnarab, Timerab, Kitejab, Giabernb, Aliab, Giuberab, Seidab, Shatinab. Megiadab. The final *b of these tnbal names is not an Arabic hut a Beja patronymic ending, borrowed from the neighbouring Hadendoahs of the Ifareb Valley, with whom they have long been intimately associated. Some of the Jalin tribes of the liarka district have even adopt(>d the To-Bedawieh hinguiige. and pass for Hamit<>s. X "Esist nicht unmu^lich dass die beiden Volker [Kababish and liaqqdra] von «>incm Stamme entsprosscn, sich die Weide vertheilt haln^n, wodurch die Tnnnung stereotyp wurde. Pie Kuhhirten h'elten sich an den g.'asigen Siidcn, die KnlNibish an den trockenen alior von Mimosen stark bewuldeten Norden, derallein dem Kameel und der Ziege Convenirt." (Munxigcr, op. eit p. 661.)