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worship; many, nominally, profess Mahommedanism. They are distinguished by narrow straight noses, thin lips and small pointed chins; their cheekbones are not prominent. They are more scantily clothed than the Abyssinians or Galla, wearing, generally, nothing but a See also:

WAIST

waist-See also:

CLOTH

cloth. Their See also:

WOMEN

women, when quite See also:

young, are See also:

PRETTY

pretty and graceful. Their huts are often tastefully decorated, the floors being spread with yellow mats, embroidered with red and See also:

VIOLET

violet designs. The Afars are divided into many sub-tribes, each having an hereditary See also:

SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan, whose See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power is, however, limited. They are desperate fighters and in 1875 successfully resisted an See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to bring them under See also:

EGYPTIAN

Egyptian See also:

RULE

rule. In 1883–1888, however, their most important sultan concluded See also:

TREATIES

treaties placing his See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country under See also:

ITALIAN

Italian See also:

PROTECTION

protection.

The Afar region is now partly under Abyssinian and partly under Italian authority. The Afars are also found in considerable See also:

numbers in See also:

French See also:

SOMALILAND

Somaliland. They have a saying " Guns are only useful to frighten cowards." They were formerly redoubtable pirates, but the descendants of these corsairs are now fishermen, and are the only sailors in the Red Sea who See also:

hunt the See also:

DUGONG

dugong. See Fr. Scazamucci and E. H. Giglioli, Notizie sui Danakil (1884) ; P. Paulitschke, Ethnographie Nordost-Afrikas (2 vols., See also:

Berlin, 1893-'896), and See also:

Die geographische Erforschung der Addl-See also:

LANDER, RICHARD LEMON (1804–1834)

Lander and Hardrs in Ost-Afrika (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1884).

End of Article: AFARS (DANAK;L)

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