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BERTAT (Arab. Jebalain)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 811 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BERTAT (Arab. Jebalain)

BERTAT (Arab. Jebalain) , negroes of the See also:

SHANGALLA

Shangalla See also:

GROUP

group of tribes, mainly agriculturists. They occupy the valleys of the Yabus and Tumat, tributaries of the See also:

BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

Blue See also:

Nile. They are shortish and very See also:

black, with projecting jaws, broad noses and thick lips. By both sexes the See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair is worn See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short or the See also:

head shaved; on cheeks and See also:

temple are tribal marks in the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of scars. The huts of the Bertat are circular, the See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor raised on short poles. Their weapons are the See also:

SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)

spear, throwing-See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club, See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword and See also:

DAGGER

dagger, and also the kulbeda orthrowing-See also:

KNIFE (0. E. cuff, a word appearing in different forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Du. knijf, Ger. Kneif, a shoe-maker's knife, Swed. knif; the ultimate origin is unknown; Skeat finds the origin in the root of " nip," formerly " knip "; Fr. canif is a

knife. Blocks of See also:

salt are the favourite form of currency. See also:

Gold washing is practised. Nature See also:

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship still struggles against the spread of Mahommedanism. The Bertat, estimated to number some 8o,000, c. 188o, were nearly exterminated during the See also:

period of See also:

DERVISH

Dervish ascendancy (1884–1898) in the eastern See also:

SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Settled among them are Arab communities governed by their own sheiks, while the meks or rulers of the Bertat speak Arabic, and show traces of See also:

FOREIGN

foreign See also:

BLOOD

blood. (See See also:

FAZOGLI, or FAZOKL

FAZOGLI.) See Koeltlitz, " The Bertat," See also:

Journal of theAnthroological See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute, xxxiii. 51 ; Anglo-See also:

EGYPTIAN

Egyptian Sudan, edited by See also:

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count See also:

GLEICHEN

Gleichen (See also:

LONDON

London, 1905).

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