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Hotumlu . 

 Karneshim 

 Az-Shuma 

 Dokono . 



Habab . 

 Bt'jxk 

 Ml nm 



Boffos (Bilin)* 

 I'akue 

 Marca 

 Algeden . 

 SnbdcKat . 

 Deinbcla . 

 Harrar . 

 Tifjré 

 Amhara . 



Mudun (Samhar) coast district about Massawa and as far as Aqiq. 



^Anseba province, north-east frontier of Abyssinia inland from Mudun. 



I Beit-Bidel and Dembela districts, about the headstreams of the Barka (Bar.ika) 

 I and Maret) (Gash) rivers, west of Anseba. 



Abyssinian enclave in Somaliland, east from Shoa ; 9" 40' N. ; 42' E. 



The predominant nation in North Abyssinia. 



The predominant nation in South Abyssinia, now politically subject to the Ti"Té. 



Sheygyeh (Shaikieli). 



Robabat . 

 Hassanieh 

 Homran . 

 Abu-Rôf . 

 SImkrieh . 

 Dobeina . 

 Yemanieh 

 Jalin {Jahalvi) 



K.ihnbishX 



JBaqqdra 



(b) ISMAELITIC OR ArAB BrANCH. 



From Dongola along left bank Nile to Abu-Hair.med. Noted for their extremely 



dark complexion, yet claiming to be of unmixed Arab descent. 

 From Abu-Hammed to the Atbara confluence. 



About the Atbara confluence, between the Robabat and Jalin north and south. 

 Midd'e course of the Atbara and Mareb rivers as far as the Basé (Kunama) territory. 

 Widespread throughout West Senaar. 



Lower and Middle Atbara (left bank), and southwards to Senaar. 



Mainly about the Blue Nile confluence, Khartum district ; but widely diflfused as 

 traders and settlers throughout Senaar, Taka, Kordofan, Dar-Fur, and even 

 Kafi'a.t 



Widely spread west of the Nile between 12° — 15° N., but especially along the route 

 from Ubeid (Kordofan) to the Nile at Dongola. The name means " Goat- 

 herds," although they are also large breeders of horses and camels. 



Mainly south of the Kabi.bish along west bank of the Nile and Bahr-el-Aiab 

 nearly to its source. The term Baqqaia, unknown in the Arab national gene- 

 alogies, has given rise to some misunderstanding. It is not the name ot any 

 particular tribe, but an expression applied collectively to all tribes which 

 breed and deal in cattle, in contradistinction to those whose wealth consists in 

 horses and camels. Hence there areBaqqâra in many parts of Sudan, although 



und bedienen sich des reinsten athiopischen Idioms, des Tigré" (Munziger, op. cit. p. 73). This use of 

 the term " Ethiopian " is very confusing, as it is also, and more properly, employed as the coUeetive 

 name of the eastern division of the Hamitic family. The Himyarites (Abyssinians) are intruders from 

 Arabia ; the Hamites are the true autochthones, 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 classed by Reinisch {loe. cit. p. 94) with the Hamites, or " Kushit^s," as he calls 

 them. But he elsewhere rightly affiliates them to the Abyssinian Semites, as spealdng a pure Tigré 

 (Geez) dialect, herein agreeing with Munziger in his " Ostafrikanische Studien," who is our best autho- 

 rity on these fragmentary ethnical groups on the north and north-east frontiers of Abyssinia. 



t The Jalin claim special consideration as the most numerous, intelligent, and purest of all the 

 Sudanese Arabs. They trace their descent from Abbas, uncle of the Prophet ; but their Arabic speech, 

 preserved and spoken with great purity, indicates the Hejas as their original home The chief Jalin tribes, 

 as enumerated by Munziger, are: Muhammadab, Mikringa Bagelab, l'âdieh, Gebâlab, Kaliab, Gum- 

 mieh, Gummeab, Gereshab Nifeab, Sadob, Jaudallahab, Mekaberab, INIeirefab, IMoselbmab, Omarab, 

 Timerab, Kitejab, Giaberab, Aliab, Giuberab, Seidab, Shatinab, Megiadab. The final ab of these tribal 

 names is not an Arabic but a Beja patronymic ending, borrowed from the neighbouring Hadendoahs of 

 the Mareb Valley, with whom they have long been intimately associated. Some of the Jalin tribes of the 

 Barka district have even adopted the To-Bedawieh language, and pass for Hamites. 



X " Es ist nicht unmoglich dass die beiden Volker [Kababish and Baqqâra] von einem Stamme 

 entsprossen, sich die Weide vertheilt haben, wodurch die Trennung stereotyp wurde. Die Kuhhirten 

 hielten sich an den g.-asigen Siiden, die Kababish an den trockenen abor von Mimosen stark bewaldeten 

 Norden, derallein dem Kameel und der Ziege Convenirt." (Munziger, op. cit p. 561.) 



