i84 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.di.xiv.

Rayth^ son of Ghatafan. The Beni el 'Ushara and the Beni Sha- MAKH^ are a part of them.

XV Kuda'a are descended from Himyar, i.e. Kuda'a son of Malik son of Murra son of Zayd son of Malik son of Himyar son of Saba.

XVI Kenana are descended from Kenana son of Khuzayma son of Mudraka son of Elyas son of Mudr, who was the fourth grandfather of our lord the Prophet.

XVII GuHAYNA is a sub-tribe of Kuda'a. XVIII The Karg are a tribe of Rum living on the frontiers of Adharbigan.

XIX The Tartars are a race living in the far east in the mountains of Tafmag on the borders of Sin. They are neighbours of the Turk, and between them and the lands of Islam which are beyond the river

is a distance of more than six months. It was these people of whom the Prophet said that their features were most hideous.

XX The Khulug ... are a tribe tracing their descent from Kuraysh. They do not, however, belong to them, but are rather an Arab people

with whom 'Omar ibn el Khattab has a common ancestor in el Harith son of Malik son of el Nudr son of Kenana. It may be added that el Harith was the brother of Fihr.

XXI Kuraysh are the descendants of Fihr; and the name of the ancestor of the Khulug was Kays.

XXII Zaghawa is a tribe of blacks, an offshoot of the Zing, and the derivative noun is Zaghawi.

XXIII Beni Hubl are a sub-tribe of Kelb and are the descendants

of Hubl son of 'Abdulla son of Kenana son of 'Auf son of 'Udhra^ son of Zayd el Dat son of Rufayda son of Thaur son of Kelb ; and

they include the descendants of Zuhayr son of Ganab* son of Hubl,

and the descendants of 'Abdulla son of 'Abdulla son of Hubl, and the descendants of 'Obayda son of Hubl.

XXIV Hilala are the descendants of Hilal son of 'Amir son of Sa'asa'a son of Mu'awia son of Bukr son of Hawazin. Of this tribe was Maymuna daughter of el Harith, mother of the faithful, and Hamayd son of Thaur, the poet and Companion of the Prophet, They also won honourable mention at the battle of Hunayn. The HiLALiA are descended from them, and of their number was Abu Zayd el Hilali, so famous for bravery and nobility. There are rem-

nants of them in Egypt and in Morocco.

XXV The Messi'ria in reality are descendants of Missir (spelt with

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