djibbas

Though the plain of El Kerrere was in fact strewn first with the white djibbas, or tunics, of the dead Soudanese, and later with their skulls and bones, as thickly as a piece of sandy desert with stones -- Lord

The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

Though the plain of El Kerrere was in fact strewn first with the white djibbas, or tunics, of the dead Soudanese, and later with their skulls and bones, as thickly as a piece of sandy desert with stones ” Lord Kitchener's army had not sufficient men to bury the vast mass of dead Dervishes till several years after ” this might be put down as the commonplace of picturesque prophecy.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922