its gold brocade. Pop. (1897) 11,210.

BOGOS (BILENS), a pastoral race of mixed Hamitic descent, occupying the
highlands immediately north of Abyssinia, now part of the Italian colony
of Eritrea. They were formerly a self-governing community, though
subject to Abyssinia. The community is divided into two classes, the
_Shumaglieh_ or "elders" and _Tigre_ or "clients." The latter are serfs
of the former, who, however, cannot sell them. The Tigre goes with the
land, and his master must protect him. In blood-money he is worth
another Tigre or ninety-three cows, while an elder's life is valued at
one hundred and fifty-eight cattle or one of his own caste. The eldest
son of a Shumaglieh inherits his father's two-edged sword, white cows,
lands and slaves, but the house goes to the youngest son. Female
chastity is much valued, but women have no rights, inherit nothing, and
are classed with the hyaena, the most despised animal throughout
Abyssinia. The Bogo husband never sees the face or pronounces the name
of his mother-in-law, while it is a crime for a wife to utter her
husband's or father-in-law's name.

BOGOTA, or SANTA FE DE BOGOTA, the capital of the republic of Colombia,
and of the interior department of Cundinamarca, in 4 deg. 6' N. lat. and
78 deg. 30' W. long. Pop. about 125,000. The city is on the eastern
margin of a large elevated plateau 8563 ft. above sea-level. The plateau
may be described as a great bench or shelf on the western slope of the
oriental Cordilleras, about 70 m. long and 30 m. wide, with a low rim on
its western margin and backed by a high ridge on the east. The plain
forming the plateau is well watered with numerous small lakes and
streams. These several small streams, one of which, the San Francisco,
passes through the city, unite near the south-western extremity of the
plateau and form the Rio Funza, or Bogota, which finally plunges over
the edge at Tequendama in a beautiful, perpendicular fall of about 475
ft. The city is built upon a sloping plain at the base of two high
mountains La Gaudalupe and Monserrate, upon whose crests stand two
imposing churches. From a broad avenue on the upper side downward to the
west slope the streets, through which run streams of cool, fresh water
from the mountains above. The north and south streets cross these at
right angles, and the blocks thus formed are like great terraces. A
number of handsomely-laid-out plazas, or squares, ornamented with
gard