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See also:BAGGARA (" Cowherds ") , See also:African " See also:Arabs of Semitic origin, so called because they are See also:great See also:cattle owners and breeders. They occupy the See also:country See also:west of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Nile between the See also:Shilluk territory and See also:Dar Nuba, being found principally in See also:Kordofan. They are true See also:nomad Arabs, having intermarried little with the Nuba, and have preserved most of their See also:national characteristics. The date of their arrival in the See also:Sudan is uncertain: they appear to have drifted up the Nile valley and to have dispossessed the See also:original Nuba See also:population. A purely See also:pastoral See also:people, they move from pasture to pasture, as See also:food becomes deficient. The true Baggara tribesmen employ oxen as See also:saddle and See also:pack animals, carry no See also:shield, and though many possess firearms the customary weapons are See also:lance and See also:sword. They have always had the reputation of being resolute fighters. Engaged from the earliest times in the slave See also:trade, they were among the first, as they were certainly the most fervent, sup-porters of the See also:mandi when he See also:rose in revolt against the Egyptians (1882). They constituted his real fighting force, and to their fanatical courage his victories were due. Their decision to follow him out of their own country to See also:Khartum brought about the fall of that See also:city. The mandi's successor, the See also:khalifa Abdullah, was a Baggara, and throughout his See also:rule the tribe held the first See also:place in his favour. They have been described as " men who look the fiends they really are—of most sinister expression, with See also:murder and every See also:crime speaking from their See also:savage eyes. Courage is their only See also:good quality." They are famous, too, as hunters of big See also:game, attacking even elephants with sword and See also:spear, G. A. See also:Schweinfurth declares them the best-looking of the Nile nomads, and the men are types of See also:physical beauty, with See also:fine heads, erect athletic bodies and sinewy limbs. There is little that is Semitic in their See also:appearance. Their skins vary in See also:colour from a dark red-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown to a deep See also:black; but their features are See also:regular and See also:free of See also:negro characteristics. In See also:mental See also:power they are much See also:superior to the indigenous races around them. They have a See also:passion for fine clothes and ornaments, tricking themselves out with See also:glass trinkets, rings and articles of See also:ivory and See also:horn. Their mode of See also:hair-dressing (See also:mop-See also:fashion) earned them, in See also:common with the See also:Hadendoa, the name of " Fuzzy-wuzzies " among the See also:British soldiers in the See also:campaigns of 1884–98.
See G. A. Schweinfurth, See also:Heart of See also:Africa (1374) ; See also:Sir F. R. See also:Wingate, Mandism and the See also:Egyptian Sudan (1891), Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by See also:Count See also:Gleichen (19o5); A. H. See also:Keane, See also:Ethnology of the Egyptian Sudan (1884).
End of Article: BAGGARA (" Cowherds ")
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