Nubian tribe?

[Rosane Rocher]

Allen,

You are probably thinking of Francis Wilford's "On Egypt and other 
countries adjacent to the Cali River, or Nile of Ethiopia, from the 
ancient books of the Hindus," /Asiatic Researches /3 (1792): 295-468.

Rosane  / /

Allen W Thrasher wrote:
> Could this have something to do with the 19th c. fraud I seem to recall which interpolated a mention of the sources of the Nile into an older text?  I vaguely remember that Daniel Ingalls touched on this in a brief article on Sanskrit frauds in JAOS, but am not having any success locating the citation at the moment.  Perhaps someone else will remember.
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>>>> Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at GMAIL.COM> 6/29/2009 8:45:31 AM >>>
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> Friends, an Arabist colleague writes to me as follows:
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> I'm writing an encyclopaedia article about a Nubian tribe known as Barabra
> which lived along the Nile river in southern Egypt and the Sudan. Now I came
> across a reference that "Sanskrit historians write already about the Old
> Race of the Barabra living along the Upper Nile." Do you have any idea where
> I could find out what and when and who?
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> I don't have any idea, but can anyone help?
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