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the Guinea negro ; while the other are of a red- 
dish colour, among which are the natives of 
Harraza on the N. of Kordofan, about N. L. 15% 
and Long. E. G. 32°. Tumurkee lies on the W. 
of Darfur. Beyond it lie numerous tribes of 
independent negroes, who are frequently invaded 
by the Begarmeese and the inhabitants of Bergoo 
and Darfur, who often proceed forty journeys to 
the S. and S. W. to seize the inhabitants, and sell 
them for slaves. The Begarmeese on horseback 
attack the Kardee, Serrowah, Showva, Battah, and 
Mulgui tribes, who are represented as idolaters 
and barbarous cannibals, and, seizing as many 
captives as possible, drive them like cattle to Be- 
garmee. If they linger on the road, exhausted 
with famine and fatigue, one of the horsemen 
seizes the most feeble, or the oldest, smites off his 
arm, and uses it as a club to drive the rest along. 
The negroes of Gnum-Gnum devour the flesh of 
their prisoners ; and, stripping the skin from the 
hands and faces of the slain, after due prepara- 
tion, wear them in triumph. This seems to be a 
particular method of scalping. They form their 
spears of iron, and, after igniting them in the 
fire, stick them in the trunk of a tree, whose juice 
is the most deadly poison, where they suffer them 
to remain till they are crusted with venom. 
Darkulla, one of the chief of these negro states, 
lies to the S. W. of Darfur and Bergoo, and is in« 
