90 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS IV. abc. xxviii.

7. The Thakra: ''Some of whom are Muhammadans and the remainder infidels."

8. The KalkAla : " They are in Tunis: some of them \too]^ live near

el Kdtnnin."

9. The Dawagira : " They live east of Mekka and are the people of el Niik el Bakht."

10. The Sanadali'b: "Some of whom used to be in Senndr." 11. The descendafits of the sons of Hildl ibn Muhammad: ''Some of them are at el Hildlta."

12. The tribes descended from 'Akil ibn Muhammad 'Amir: " These

tribes live in Upper Egypt. But the Shamia and the Ma'aida and the Kalalib are descended from 'Aid ibn Husayn. Some of them are west of

Ddrfur.'' XXIX The descendants of 'Abdulla ibn Zubayr ibn el 'Awwam are the Kawahla in the Gezira of Sennar, who are the children of

Guhayna ibn 'Ati'a ibn el Hasan ibn 'Abdulla ibn el Zubayr ibn el 'Awwam, and also the 'Ababda, who are the children of el Zubayr. These are Kuraysh.

XXX The nomads in the Sudan who have been mentioned are all

descended from Mudr ibn Nizar and Rabi'a ibn Nizar.

XXXI The Ga'afira in Upper Egypt include the descendants of Ga'afir el Sadik, and the descendants of Ga'afir el Tiar, the brother of the Imam 'Ali ibn Abu el Talib, and the descendants of Ga'afir ibn Kutaf el Tai, who are of the stock of Hatim el Tai, so famous for

his generosity and bravery, and the descendants of Ga'afir el Barmaki. All of them live in Upper Egypt.

XXXII The Hadarma were originally nomads in Hadramaut and moved across to the west bank of the Red Sea \el Mdlih] and settled at Suakin in the Sudan, They left the east bank in the time of el Haggag ibn Yusef el Thakfi.

XXXIII The Gabarta^ are by origin Arabs. XXXIV The Mesallamia of the district so-named are the stock of

Musallam ibn Hamaz 'Ataf the Ommawi. They migrated from Syria in the time of 'Omar ibn 'Abd el 'Aziz the Ommawi and settled in the Sudan in the country known after them.

XXXV The inhabitants of Edfu are of different races. Some are AsHRAF, and some are Arabs, including Manakira and Khula and

Harai'z and Kaluh and Kalalib and Merinab, all of whom are Guhayna, and the Busayli'a, the descendants of Hammad el Busayli, who are Arabs of Hegaz tracing their descent to Guhayna.

^ reading Oj-aJI for S^aJI.