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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 845 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NUER , a Nilotic See also:

negro See also:people of the upper See also:Nile, dwelling in the swampy plains See also:south of See also:Fashoda and at the See also:Bahr-el-Ghazal confluence, and having for neighbours the See also:Dinka, whom they resemble. They are See also:long-legged and See also:flat-footed, and live, like the aquatic birds, on See also:fish, roots and See also:river See also:plants. They See also:tattoo tribal marks on the forehead, and the See also:women See also:pierce the upper lips. A few Nuer families live on the floating islets of grass and reeds brought down by the river in See also:flood.

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