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MANUSCRIPT C4

Introduction

This pedigree was translated from a dingy document held by the \oc2L\feki at the Mahass village of Kutrang on the Blue Nile.

As an accurate record it is worthless.

I This is the pedigree of the Mahass, the five sons of Fellah, viz.

[lit. "of them are. . ."] Marzuk and Subuh and Kurduk and Musa and Kundur.

II Marzuk [i.e. his descendants] are settled in Kordofan, Subuh among the Dubaina, Kundur at Aylafun, Kurduk at Tuti and el Khartoum, and Musa at Kutrang 1.

III The father of Fellah was named Sharaf son of Mushayrif^ son

of Zaid son of Mazad son of Dablak son of Hamaydi son of Gama'i son of Sukr son of Kuban son of Abud son of Muhammad el Mahass

son of Abdulla son of Ma'az son of Gebel son of Abdulla son of Ka'ab son of Fihr son of Luai son of Ghalib son of Kenana.

IV Here ends the pedigree of the Mahass descended from Fellah.

C 4 (NOTES)

I I have not seen "Fellah" mentioned in any nisha but this. II The normal plural to denote "descendants of Marzuk" would be "Merazik," and this name does occur as that of a subsection of the Gm- SHiMAT section of the Hamar 'Asakira and also among the Gawama'a in Kordofan (see Part III, Chaps, i and 4).

'Aylafun is on the Blue Nile near Khartoum. Tuti Island lies opposite Khartoum.

Kutrang is on the Blue Nile, south-east of 'Aylafun. III The last part of the pedigree is confused and inaccurate. Ka'ab {q.v. Wiistenfeld, P) had no son 'Abdulla.

1 reading -wl^Ji^ for r^)jj£s. ^ reading oi^-«L« for sJujJi^.