IV. ABC. XXVIII. OF THE SUDAN 97

For the fourth Guhayna cp. BA, lvii and note. For the 52 tribes of Guhayna cp. BA, cxxiii. The three sons of Baghid according to Wiistenfeld (H) were Dhubian

(father of Fezara), Anmar and 'Abs.

XXVII Cp. BA, c. There we get "Sha'uf" (^^ai) for the "Shakiik" (^^.ii) of ABC. The 'Abs mentioned here obviously represents the 'Abs son of Baghid mentioned in the preceding note.

The genealogy of the Nurab section of Kababi'sh is given in a confused manner: for instance, it is expressly mentioned that 'Ali ibn Nur had "five sons," but reference is subsequently made to a sixth, viz. Keradim.

On p. 195 of Tribes..., I have given a genealogical tree based on the version supplied orally by the chief men of the NurAb themselves: it

agrees fairly well with ABC. It will be noticed that the Rowahla, who are a section of the Kababish, do not appear with the NurAb, RibaykAt and other sections, i.e. as descended from Sufian, but among the descen-

dants of Dhubian. There are sections of NurAb called DAr KebIr, DAr

Um Bakhi't, AwlAd el Kir, and DAr Sa'i'd : hence the names of the sons of Nur ibn 'Ali {see tree).

Sheikh 'Ali wad el Tom is the present ndzir of the KABABfsH. XXVIII Cp. BA, Lvi and lix et seq., etc.

In this section the author has several times confused the two men

called Dhubian, viz. the son of Baghid and the son of 'Abd: both are descended (see tree) from Baghid, and in mentioning the full name of some of the descendants of the former he has, on reaching Dhubian, con-

tinued ". . .son of 'Abd," etc., instead of ". . .son of Baghid," although he has previously made it clear that, as in all other nisbas of the Guhayna group, the persons and tribes mentioned are descended from the son of Baghid. I have ignored these errors in the tree.

The name "'Abd el 'Aziz Mahsin" is an amusing illustration of methods. Other nisbas give " 'Abd el 'Aziz Mahass (^...a>..«), ancestor of the Mahass"; but the author of ABC, himself a Mahassi, has already provided (see Tree i) a better pedigree for his tribe, so he changes

"Mahass" to "Mahsin" (,>-o^) by little more than the addition of a dot, and omits mention of the Mahass. He even makes mention of two

different descendants of Dhubian called 'Abd el 'Aziz Mahsin. The name Mahsin occurs again in para, i (see tree).

The 'AwAMRA are given as descendants of 'Omran, whereas from their name they should clearly be descended from 'Amir.

One gathers that, in the author's view, there are two different bodies of Shukria, one descended from Yashkur and one from Bashir. They generally appear in nisbas as descended from Bashir. For Yashkur cp. D 7, XI. For the descent of the ruling family of the ShukrIa, the AwlAd Abu Sin, from Kuraysh, see C 5.

There is a village called el Kalkala close to el Kamlin. Cp. BA, xciv for the DawAgira.

'Aid ibn Husayn has not previously been mentioned.... The presentation of the descendants of Dhubian is very inaccurate