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brought us to Klissem, a Banda and Kirri village which the 

 two races divide distinctly between them, the Kirri living in 

 the part to the south. It is a settlement of former slaves of 



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Rabeh and all bear his marks, the three small cuts on either 

 cheek. They are a primitive people and do not use much 

 cloth. The women wear strings of beads round their loins 

 with a narrow strip of cloth attached in front, while some have 

 bunches of leaves only. 



The Banda came originally from the country south of 

 Darfur, but were driven farther south by the slave raiders of 

 Wadai and Darfur, and now they are to be found, for the most 

 part, in the districts of the Upper Shari. The men are not an 



