Bari, Or Baris, a negro tribe of Gondokoro and other places on the White Nile, savage in character and excessively brutal in appearance. Sir Samuel Baker says in his "Albert N'yanza" (1866): "The women are not prepossessing, but the negro type of thick lips and flat nose is wanting; their features are good, and the woolly hair alone denotes the trace of negro blood." The only hair upon the heads of the men is a small tuft, in which they stick feathers. Their villages are circular. They inhabit a region capable of the highest cultivation. Goats, sheep, and cattle are very small, but extremely prolific. The poorer classes are employed in fishing and in manual labor. They live under chieftains in a patriarchal fashion, practise polygamy, and are under the influence of weather prophets and doctors. The hut of each family is surrounded by an impenetrable hedge of euphorbia, the interior generally consisting of a yard plastered with a cement of ashes, cow dung, and sand. When not at war with the slave and ivory traders, they are generally at war among themselves.