[54]Bulletin Soc. Khéd. de Géogr. 1886. p. 443.
[55]According to Mr. Bramly (The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 1905. p. 91) the Bisharin are not true Arabs, and are of Hamitic descent.
[56]Regarding the geographical boundaries of the different tribes, see [Chapter XII.]
[57]Schweinfurth did not have the same experience in 1864; but one speaks as one finds. Schweinfurth was reluctant to pass judgment, not knowing the language, and possibly in the interval since 1864 the people have improved.
[58]On the Bishari language, see Almkvist, Die Bishari-sprache, Upsala, 1881-1885; Reinisch, Die Bedauye-sprache in Nordost-Africa, Wien, 1893; and Reinisch, Wörterbuch der Bedauye-sprache, Wien, 1895.
[59]The millieme is practically equivalent to an English farthing.
[60]For a detailed description of this road, see [Chapter XIII.]
[61]Arrêté of the Ministry of Interior, Egypt, June 25, 1902.