258 SERVICE AND SPORT IN THE SUDAN 



The months I spent at Wau were full of purely 

 administrative work. I made two short patrols, 

 which I will describe later. 



The people about were truly interesting. From 

 an ethnological standpoint the study of the broken 

 tribes west of the twenty-eighth degree of E. longi- 

 tude should be taken up at once. The old men 

 mumble still the history and folk-lore the younger 

 ones despise. Sultan Limbo, who entertained Miss 

 Tinne among others, and was once a powerful Sultan, 

 now lords it over about two hundred men. His sons 

 are quasi-Moslems. The same can be said of Kiango 

 of the Golos. No one, not even Schweinfurth or 

 Junker, has gone more than skin deep in the study. 



The composition, dispersion, and adherence to tribal 

 customs of these broken tribes was what struck me. 

 The inhabitants are now ashamed of their primeval 

 religion. One can believe that the lost tribes of 

 Israel were other such. Unless their lore, handed 

 down verbally for ages, is collected soon, it will be 

 lost, as much has been, in the "fathah." For in- 

 stance one tribe, the Beio, consisted of nine adults 

 (1906). The Kreish are the true owners of the 

 eastern watershed. To them came at a remote time 

 the Ferogei. The Banda and Bingos have recently 

 come over from the western side. Closer to Wau we 

 have the Jurs and Dinkas, riverain negroids, kin to 

 one another. Round Wau were to be found the 

 Golos, Barei, N'Dogo, &c., and south, the Belanda, 

 an effeminate-looking people, and the cannibals. I 

 think that these last are kin. 



