the Negro country) sa nuance caractéristique.; elle est la
moins nombreuse.”'"
The red caste are..evidently persons of the xanthous complexion.
I have often alluded to thév origination5 of this
variety among the African nations as a phenomenon of not
very rare occurrence, and I have noticed this particular instance.
‘ El Soudan-Azraq : “ Les Bleus." Leur couleur est
cuivré ; ce sont les Foungis.
4. El Ahcdar. “ Les Verts.”—“ Hair, like the Foüngi”—
It is plain that the general description of the “ Indigenes du
Sennâr,” above cited, is intended to apply to the Foungi;
Features nearly Negro.
5. Kl Kat-Fatelobem. Partly of the first and partly of
the fourth, that is, partly yellow and partly green. “ Ils ont
les cheveux plats, parfois au peu crépus ;• le sang qui domine
en eux est celui des Ethiopiens, peuples agricoles, dont la
couleur ressemble à celle des Abyssins, et qui doit tiret son
origine de la race la plus nombreuse des hommes qui compos
saient la population de L’ancienne Egypte.”
M. Cailliaud in this instance, jf he does not directly intend
to describe the Barâbras, seems to have formed his ideal definition
of a common Ethiopian and Egyptian stock from that
people. I beg to refer the reader to the account of the'
Barâbra which he will find in the succeeding section.
L). Abbits, Ahbd or Nouba.
Ce sont des peuplâdes Nègres venues de l’ouest, et qui habitant
les montagnes de Bertât où ils vivent isolés. Ils ont les
cheveux cotonneux, généralement noirs, un peu roux : ils
ont les nez moins plâts, les lèvres moins épaisses et les "joues
moins proéminentes que les Nègres de l’Afrique Méridionale.
Quelqu’uns ont la figure regulierèment belle.
I shall have occasion to cite some further accounts of the
people here termed Nouba in the following section. I may
here remark that the variety of physical traits generally
noticed among these Negroes in this part of Afiica, may render
it less difficult to conceive that the Foungi are the real
offspring of a tribe which three centuries ago resembled the
Nouba of Bertât.
S ection III.—X)f the Native Rac&§ of Bertat, Fertit, Donga,
DarJculla and ether '/Neg’rp: countries to ‘„the southward of
,, Darfur > Kordofgn $nd iSennaar.
These countries' haMg^ér;T^enJyisi|e(i' by IJtmppéans. M.
'Cailliaud i|?the)'only travJ|ieFwho has.-'blemM thp’equntry of
Bertat, and he was only at-Qamâmyl pçÀthè northern border
of that ’ regiopi x I. hav^Ulre^w|ited his the
native^. Bertat is thq^egpon^Jmnpe .tne^Noiiba ‘slaves ,arc
principally brought. I haverillready quoted fréîu Burckhardt,
Dr.” Riipipell,. and others an account qf their physical'1 characters
.D
arkulla.ls'a' mountainous tract in ttfffrêamc great division
èî Africa. According to Mr. Brown the traders of Darfâ^ând
BorgHo .sdm'etimes resort thither to buy 'sla^psl^n^ipfei^etfor
salt, which they carry with them. The \P^garis ;
they are remarkable for honesty and çl^abline^s^ they are
partly Negroes, and partly peOple^bf euifreddish. or popper
colour. Brown says, that the slaves brought-from Darkulla
are of a red colour ; he places it to the sOutH-^w^st b f 'Darfur.
Probably it is beyond Begharme, ana in the ernpiteVif Bornu!\
‘Donga’ and Fertit are the names of .countries frequently
Petitioned by African travellers. Little is known of them'.
They are described a*s mountainous “rëgïdbsf ^cq^^ejfl ' with
forests, near the sources of the Bahr-el-Abiad. Fertit is-
said to contain rich mines of copper.*
* Caillaudj Voyages à Meroë et au Fleuve Blanc. See also Balbi,. Abrégé de
Géographie.