[200] H. A. MacMichael has investigated the value of these racial claims in the case of the Kababish and indicates the probable admixture of Negro, Mediterranean, Hamite and other strains in the Sudanese Arabs. He says, "Among the more settled tribes any important sheikh or faki can produce a table of his ancestors (_i.e._ a _nisba_) in support of his asseverations.... I asked a village sheikh if he could show me his pedigree, as I did not know from which of the exalted sources his particular tribe claimed descent. He replied that he did not know yet, but that his village had subscribed 60 piastres the month before to hire a faki to compose a _nisba_ for them, and that he would show me the result when it was finished." "The Kababish: Some Remarks on the Ethnology of a Sudan Arab Tribe," _Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst._ XL. 1910, p. 216. [201] See the Kababish types, Pl. XXXVII in C. G. Seligman's "Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan," _Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst._ XLIII. 1913, but cf. also p. 626 and n. 2. [202] "The Physical Characters of the Nuba of Kordofan," _Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst._ XL. 1910, "Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem," etc., _tom. cit._ XLIII. 1913. [203] See H. A. MacMichael, _The Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofan_, 1912. [204] Cf. A. W. Tucker and C. S. Myers, "A Contribution to the Anthropology of the Sudan," _Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst._ XL. 1910, p. 149. [205] This term, however, has by some authorities been identified with the _Barabara_, one of the 113 tribes recorded in the inscription on a gateway of Thutmes, by whom they were reduced about 1700 B.C. In a later inscription of Rameses II at Karnak (1400 B.C.) occurs the form _Beraberata_, name of a southern people conquered by him. Hence Brugsch (_Reisebericht aus AEgypten_, pp. 127 and 155) is inclined to regard the modern _Barabra_ as a true ethnical name confused in classical times with the Greek and Roman _Barbarus_, but revived in its proper sense since the Moslem conquest. See also the editorial note on the term _Berber_, in the new English ed. of Leo Africanus, Vol. 1. p. 199. [206] [Greek:'Ex aristeron de ruseos tou Neilou Noubai katoikousin en te Libue, mega ethnos], etc. (Book XVII. p. 1117, Oxford ed. 1807). Sayce, therefore, is quite wrong in stating that Strabo knew only of "Ethiopians," and not Nubians, "as dwelling northward along the banks of the Nile as far as Elephantine" (_Academy_, April 14, 1894). [207] _Nubische Grammatik_, 1881, _passim._ [208] B. Z. Seligman, "Note on the Languages of the Nubas of S. Kordofan," _Zeitschr. f. Kol.-spr._ I. 1910-11; C. G. Seligman, "Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem," etc., _Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst._ XLIII. 1913, p. 621 ff. [209] See A. H. Keane, _Man, Past and Present_, 1900, p. 74.