حتى في الساعة الخامسة والعشرين: أقول لأهلي وجيراني دينكا نقوك...

Quote: At the beginning of the twentieth century the in-coming Condominium administration found that Arop Biong’s group of Ngok were generally on good terms with their Arab neighbours, but at the same time the Ngok’s closest relationship was with the anti-Mahdist Humr, who were being supplanted by the returning Mahdist Humr. Ali Jula was largely responsible for carrying out raids against the Ngok and Twic Dinka, and of extortion in claiming to collect cattle tax on behalf of the government. The Bahr al-Ghazal Province administration found that the Dinka living around the Bahr al-Arab were largely inaccessible to them because of the sudd (barriers of floating vegetation) in the river. There was also a confusion about just who had jurisdiction over whom. The annual reports claimed that the Bahr el-Arab was the provincial boundary between Kordofan and Bahr el-Ghazal, but no official was quite sure where the Bahr el-Arab was, since neither the Dinka nor the Baggara used that name and called the river the Kiir or the Jurf respectively.8 The location and nomenclature of these waterways were not sorted out until some years after the transfer of the Dinka to Kordofan.9