BAGGARA (Cattlemen), African "Arabs" of Semitic origin, great cattle owners and breeders, found west of the White Nile between the Shilluk territory and Dar Nuba, principally in Kor dofan. They intermarried little with the Nuba. The date of their arrival in the Sudan is uncertain. They move from pasture to pasture, as food becomes deficient, and employ oxen as saddle and pack animals, carry no shield, but use a long, full-bladed spear, while many possess firearms. They were resolute fighters and slave-traders and were the first, as they were certainly the most fervent, supporters of the mandi in 1882. They constituted his real fighting force. and to their fanatical courage his victories were due. The mandi's successor, the khalifa Abdullah, was a Bag gara, and throughout his rule the tribe held the first place in his favour. As hunters of big game, they attack even elephants with sword and spear. The men are types of physical beauty, with fine heads, erect athletic bodies and sinewy limbs. There is little that is Semitic in their appearance. Their skins vary in colour from a dark red-brown to a deep black; but their features are regular and free of negro characteristics. In mental power they are much superior to the indigenous races around them. They have a passion for fine clothes and ornaments, tricking themselves out with glass trinkets, rings and articles of ivory and horn. Their mode of hair-dressing (mop-fashion) earned them, in common with the Hadendoa, the name of "Fuzzy-wuzzies" among the British soldiers in the campaigns of 1884-98. The women wear lumps of amber, bosses of silver, large earrings and nose rings.