[40] The names of the principal members of this Austrian Roman Catholic Mission, which finally abandoned its labors about 1862, owing to the terribly unhealthy climate of the Upper Nile, were Knoblecher, Beltrame, Morlang, Ueberbacher, Ryllo, and Dorvak. Of their numbers (seventeen in all) fifteen died of fever or dysentery, and only two returned to Europe. Beltrame wrote important works in Italian on the Dinka language. Knoblecher, Ueberbacher, and Morlang collected materials for the illustration of the Bari language, which were put together by Mitterrützner. [41] Glamorgan. [42] It may be mentioned here that throughout the Sudan, from the Albert Nyanza to Khartum, the Egyptians, as distinct from their Sudanese soldiers, are always spoken of as Turki or Turūk. Kordofan, once the home of the Nubians and of Negro races, was overrun by Arabs for several centuries, and more than a hundred years ago formed part of the half-Ethiopian kingdom of Sennar. It was then subdued by the mailed horsemen of Darfur, and held by them until conquered by the Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pasha in 1820. [43] Petherick in his last book writes in eulogistic terms of the behaviour of this mere boy (so far as age went) throughout all the trying experiences that the Pethericks underwent in their journeys up and down the White Nile and the rivers of the Bahr-al-Ghazal. It would be interesting to know what became of Foxcroft after so promising a début in African travel. [44] Many of these tribes are known to us at the present day by foolish nicknames. For instance, the Kamasia people, who dwell in the western part of the Baringo district, really call themselves El Tūkan. Turkana seems often pronounced Tukana. [45] Amabile, tried and sentenced to imprisonment by Petherick for slave-trading, and Andrea de Bono, who, though ostensibly an ivory-trader, was very unscrupulous in his methods. De Bono, however, was the first European to explore the countries to the east of the Mountain Nile, i.e., between the main Nile and the basin of Lake Rudolf. [46] Near the confluence of the Asua River. [47] Down to about 1860 the Arab ruler over East Africa was the Imam of Maskat, the sovereign of the principality of Oman on the Persian Gulf. For more than a hundred years, however, the Imam of Maskat deputed one of his sons or kinsmen to be Sayyid of Zanzibar. [48] By its own people this country is called _Wu-nya-mwezi_. _Wu-_ is a degenerate form of the Bantu _bu-_ prefix, which is often used to indicate a country. _Nya_ is a particle, meaning “of,” or “concerning,” and _mwezi_ = the moon. Unyamwezi is, however, so far away from Ruwenzori on the one hand or Kilimanjaro on the other that it is difficult to associate its name (which so far as we know has been in existence for about four centuries) with that of the snow-mountains.