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no home, no fixed abode or laws; nor
can they endure to remain long in the
same climate, no one district or country
pleasing them for a continuance.
Their life is one continued wandering;
their wives are hired, on special
covenant, for a fixed time; and that there
may be some appearance of marriage in
the business, the intended wife, under
the name of a dowry, offers a spear and
a tent to her husband, with a right to
quit him after a fixed day, if she should
choose to do so. And it is inconceivable
with what eagerness the individuals of
both sexes give themselves up to
matrimonial pleasures.

Yemen (in Arabia) and the other Arab
tribes adopted the use of the bow.
Historically, the Beja ruled the vast
territory of theirs (laying between
Northern Nigeria and Sudan) in five
kingdoms namely, the Naqis, Baqlin
(Taflin), Bazin, Jarin and Qata (Qita, also
perhaps Qasa).

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But as long as they live they wander
about with such extensive and perpetual
migrations, that the woman is married
in one place, brings forth her children in
another and rears them at a distance
from either place, no opportunity of
remaining quiet being ever granted to
her. They all live on venison, and are
further supported on a great abundance
of milk, and on many kinds of herbs, and
on whatever birds they can catch by
fowling. And we have seen a great many
of them wholly ignorant of the use of
either corn or wine.”
The Black African Bejas/Saracens also
called the Blemmys gave to the Arabs of
today (blacks and pales) the knowledge
to live in the Sahara as well as the most
basic cultural elements that define the
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