284 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.ds.
Rawa district, is named after the Hag Sa'id here mentioned. Cp. note to para, iv, supra, and B i, xxx. 'Aydag is also in the Wad Rawa group of villages (cp. note to No. 60).
The Geli'lab still own lands at Wad el Sha'ir, which lies west-south-
west of Rufa'a in the Blue Nile Province.
'^ He married in the Gezira. . .." From a remark in the biography of No. 190 we know he married a woman of the 'Akk and by her had two daughters. The 'Akk were an Arabian tribe very largely represented at the conquest of Egypt by the Arabs in 640 a.d. (see Butler, The Arab Con-
quest...). They were Kahtanites.
Shd'a el Din walad Tiiaym is said to have lived eleven generations ago. The subsections of the ShuKx'^ia all claim him or his father Tuaym as a common ancestor.
'' ^o persons." See note to No. 23.
Tekali is a mountain in southern Kordofan (see MacPvlichael, Tribes..., passim).
68. Presumably a relative of No. i (q.v.). He is said by natives to have been buried at el Kab between Sennar and Wad Medani. He died
in 1803 (see D 7, CLXii).
69. Cp. No. 93.
70. "He died. . ." is
This branch of the family is omitted in Jackson's Tree ( Yacubabi Tribe) as living not near Sennar but in the north near Shendi.
71. He is the head of the great Ban el Nuka family, of which one
branch live in the north near Shendi, and the other, the Ya'akubab, near
Sennar. They are generally believed to be Razkia by race: Jackson {Yacu-
babi Tribe) speaks of them as "originally Shaigi." "He was called. . . " is
jOft Ijl^ 0^^3 ^^^iuo ^\ j^eliJ 0^^ CJ15 A-cl ^J^) liJI ^b ^^^-j^
King Nail was the second of the Fung kings: his date was 1 534-1 551 (Bruce).
No. 71, called elsewhere "el Darir" ["The Blind"], is given in Jackson's Tree ( Yacubabi Tribe) as son of Hamdan Abu Dukn son of 'Abud, and there appears as "Bennaga Derair."
72. "He was a follower of is j-)^i t^j-iaJ' ■.iJULw. El Imam 'AH was the Prophet's son-in-law.
'Araki, like No. 64, was evidently so named after 'AbduUa el 'Araki. 73. Basbar's descendants are known as the Basabir. " El Shukri " was probably only a nickname. He is always said now to have been a Shaiki,
and as the Shaikia are by origin Ga'aliin and '(3n was son of Shaik (see D 5 (c), iv), the term "Ga'ali '(3ni" is quite explicable.
" // is related. . . " For the Arabic see Appendix 15. This story is also related in almost the same terms in No. 58. The latter adds that it was for seven years that the Hammadi abstained from