Anglo-Egyptian] 113 LIVE-STOCK Among tribes of the Bahr el-Ghazal , as also among the Dinka of Bor (Mongalla ), a wife costs from 20 to 50 iron hoes or 20 to 30 sheep and goats. The Nuer own considerable numbers of beasts , which, like various other tribes, they rarely kill for meat; but they are too much afraid of their thieving neighbours in Abyssinia to make much parade of their possessions. The Selim Baggara tribes keep large numbers of sheep, but few cattle . The Dinka ofthe White Nile are similar in this respect , and pay their herd tax partly in kind and partly in money: The tribes of the Khor Gash , in Kassala, inhabiting a district which lies at an elevation of 1,735 feet, keep great herds of sheep and horned cattle, which they water every alternate day at the wells. The Atbai ( Berber province) is regarded as one of the best grazing grounds in the Sudan, not only for sheep and goats, but also for camels .

On the White Nile, at Renk , the inhabitants own many sheep and goats , and at Shawal , Abu Lahm , and Aba Island the pasturage is said to be very rich. Round Omdurman large flocks of cattle and sheep wander at will among the rich grasses which cover the mud flats and islands as the river falls . There is little doubt that the live-stock industry of the Anglo -Egyptian Sudan is one of great potential importance, not only for the people, but for Government revenues.

Dependent upon the live-stock industry are the export of hides and skins , and the manufacture of native leather . Goat and sheep skins are chiefly used in the latter industry, the principal tanning materials employed being sant bark and pods ( A cacia arabica), muduš bark (Parkia filicoidea ), andabu surug bark ( Prosopis oblonga ) . There is a considerable export of untanned hides and skins, principally to Great Britain and Egypt. Among these figure a certain number of camel skins.

The export of wool from the Sudan is insignificant, the sheep being for the most part of the species without wool. Some experiments in the breeding of sheen for wool are in progress by the Veterinary Department.