lOO NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SUDAN app

3. Tomam, son of Tamim el Dar, [i.e.] the amir Nigm el Dm ["Star of Religion"], who was buried at Cairo at the Gate of Victory, had four sons, viz.:

(a) Um Barak ibn Nigm el Din, whose descendants are called the Umbarakab and live in Upper Egypt and the Sudan.

(h) 'Onulla ibn Nigm el Din, whose descendants are called the 'Onul- LAB and live in Upper Egypt and the Sudan.

(c) Ghulamulla ibn Nigm el Din, whose descendants are called the Harbiab and live in Upper Egypt and the Sudan.

(d) 'Amir ibn Nigm el Din, whose descendants are called the Awlad 'OmrAn^ and live in Upper Egypt and Kordofan [in] the Sudan.

Section II

The following are said to be the 27 divisions of Kanuz in Upper Egypt and the Sudan ^.

(At Aswan, Khartoum, Omdur-

man, and Khartoum North

and el Kawa. and Butri and el Mesallamfa. and Berber and el Damer. and Berber. and el Kamlfn.

and Shendi. and in Dar Fung.

and el Kamlfn. and Berber.

and Shendi.

I. El Wanasab \

2. El Mududdb

4.

El Huzaylab El '6nullab

5-

El Umbarakab 6. Abu Hur

7-

8.

El Geraysab Dabod

9-

10.

El Khayrullab El Adhamab II.

12. El Ghidaysab El Nasrullab 13-

14. El Bughdalab El Riffa

IS- El Salmab 16. El Hawatin 17- El Fellahfn 18. El Waznab 19. 20.

21.

El Tonab El Begwab El Howwashab 22.

23- 24- 25-

El fayibab El Gazayra El liagab El Gharbfa

26. El Belalab

27- El Nukdab

and Shendi.

and Dongola.

^ The Bent [Azvldd] 'Omrdn are a small tribe living among the Bedayria in Kordofdn near el Obeid.

^ Nos. I, 3 and 15 come from Kaldbsha and are sometimes spoken of by that name: these form a majority in the Sudan. The Kanuz are chiefly ejnplnyed in the ivorkshops of the Steamers and Railways Departments, and as servants. From Section I it seems that Nos. 9 and 10 and, again, Nos. 4, 5, 12, 20, are respectively connected by close ties.