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_, Freiburg i. B., 1900). A full list of Bar-Hebraeus's other works, and of editions of such of them as have been published, will be found in W. Wright's _Syriac Literature_, pp. 268-281. The more important of them are:--(1) _K[)e]th[=a]bh[=a] dhe-Bh[=a]bh[=a]th[=a]_ (Book of the Pupils of the Eyes), a treatise on logic or dialectics; (2) _[H.][=e]wath H[=e]khm[)e]th[=a]_ (Butter of Wisdom), an exposition of the whole philosophy of Aristotle; (3) _Sull[=a][k.][=a] Haun[=a]n[=a]y[=a]_ (Ascent of the Mind), a treatise on astronomy and cosmography, edited and translated by F. Nau (Paris, 1899); (4) various medical works; (5) _K[)e]th[=a]bh[=a] dh[)e]-[S.]em[h.][=e]_ (Book of Ravs), a treatise on grammar; (6) ethical works; (7) poems; (8) _K[)e]th[=a]bh[=a] dh[)e]-Thunn[=a]y[=e] M[)e]gha[h.][h.][)e]kh[=a]n[=e]_ (Book of Entertaining Stories), edited and translated by E. A. W. Budge (London, 1897). (N. M.) [1] Imperfectly edited and translated by Bruns and Kirsch in 1789. There is now a better edition by Bedjan (Paris, 1890). [2] Edited and translated by Abbeloos and Lamy (Paris and Louvain, 1872-1873). BARI, a tribe of Nilotic negroes, living on the banks of the upper Nile some 200 m. N. of Albert Nyanza. They have as neighbours the Dinka to the north, the Madi to the south, and the Galla to the east. The men are tall and thin, the women fat and under middle height. Their colour is a deep dead brown. The men and unmarried girls go practically naked, the married women wearing a goatskin dyed red. The body is ornamented with red clay and the lower incisors are often extracted. Their sole wealth is cattle and their chief food milk and blood; meat is only eaten when a cow happens to die. They live in round grass huts with conical roofs. Twins are considered unlucky, the mother is divorced by her husband and her family must refund part of the marriage-price. The dead are buried in the hut; a square grave is dug in which the body is arranged in a sitting position with the hands tied behind the back. The most important men in the country are the rainmakers, who are reverenced even more than the chiefs, and, indeed, are famous among the surrounding tribes. The Bari warriors have been much recruited for the Egyptian army and were formerly used as slave-hunters by the Arab traders. See Sir Samuel Baker, _The Albert N'yanza_ (London, 1866); Friedrich Muller, _Die Sprache der Bari_ (Vienna, 1864); G. Casati, _Ten Years in
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