Pastoral people: Afr

Usage examples of dinka.

Cecil wore a frown of concentration and held his head cocked toward the six Dinka chieftains conversing several yards away, in their even, musical and slightly female voices.

Certainly he had been taken aback to find that for this meeting with the representative of America the Dinka had decided to wear suits.

They discussed the Dinka languidly but without broaching what was still puzzling them.

From these, he made his choices and marked his choices with metal burrs smaller than a dinka seed, metal burrs with silent voices that would cry out to the meatmen who followed him and swept the marked ones in the terrible black maw of the meatwagon.

I learned at the last Dinka village that no such party had been yet seen, and concluded to await your arrival here, where I pitched my tent a day and a night waiting for you.

But Justin must remain in his seat until Captain McKenzie beckons him down the steps and leads him away from the festivities, across the airstrip, up a small mound to where a cluster of Dinka elders in black trousers and white shirts sit in a half circle of kitchenchairs under a shade tree.

From a distance, we first thought that children in a Masai or Dinka village were wearing glasses, but on approaching them we realized that there were rings of black flies almost permanently surrounding their eyes to obtain moisture.

He spoke a dozen other more primitive tongues and could bargain with the naked Dinka and the Shilluk.

Then he had four large storerooms stacked to the ceiling with dried cattle hides bartered from the pastoral Dinka and Shilluk tribes to the south.

The Shilluk and Dinka tribesmen who inhabited the banks of the river wore no clothing of any description.

South of the city lived the Dinka, cattle people, who once roamed the cracked earth between here and the upland forest, where fever trees glow and scrub lies lifeless, until rains come and the underbrush explodes.

When the Red Cross landed their first helicopter I was pulling a Dinka girl from under a pile.

Just as we were about to sally forth on the strength of this assurance to visit the village we saw two Negroes approaching, and resumed our position till we had made sure they were from the Dinkas.