48 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.ba.c.
c "Sha'uf" appears in B i as "Ashuf," and in ABC as "Shakuk." Cp. ABC, XXVII.
CI Kabsh is meant as ancestor of the Kababi'sh, Ribayk of the Ribaykat, Berara of the BerAra, Kerri of the KerriAt, and 'Atawi of the 'Atawi'a,
all at present sections of the Kababish except the Kerriat ("Gerriat"), who are independent.
cii MS. 3 in error writes "Gewar" for "Gerar." cm The Beni Ger.4r and their sections.
CIV The Baza 'a and their sections. For " Nuran " MS. i gives " Nulan." MS. 3 says "The sons of Abza'a were Fur and Nur and Merwan, and Merwan begot Mai; and as regards el Hag Mazin his sons were. . ., etc."
cvi, cvii Cp. A 3, xxxvii-xxxix.
I have translated "Baghdad" and "Baghada," which are obviously intended, but the text of MS. i gives (i) j\jJu and (2) jtjou, and Sjlij
(for S^lij), and MSS. 2 and 3 gwt j\jJo and ojKsu.
cviii Contrast D i, cxxxii. ex MS. 3 is here confused and inaccurate. These descendants of Hamid
are collectively known as "Dar HAmid." For "Hababi'n" (which is cor-
rect in MS. i) MS. 2 gives "HabAniin." CXI Cp. D I, CXLVI.
MS. 3 says "The descendants of Hammad are Koi {i.e. AwlAd Akoi) and the MegAnin are descendants of Hamid: their father was called
'Magnun.'"
cxii-cxv MS. 3 puts this earlier and says "Hilal's descendants are HilAla and Hasan el Hilali..., etc.," and substitutes "tJlu el Ghaba" for "Ulu el Ghaya."
This concubine, who would be a negress, is apparently invented in order to drag in all the negro tribes of the upper reaches of the White Nile.
cxvi For "KAidAb" and "MahidAb" and "BAkAb" (MS. i) MS. 2 gives "KAi'lAb" and "MahidAt" and "BalkAra."
MS. 3 says "The descendants of Zayad are the ZayAdi'a. The ShukrIa are of the stock of Muhammad ibn 'Amir Sha'ib; and Sha'ib's descendants
are the NAi'lAb and the MahIdAt and the 'Aksa ( ?) and the BAkAb and the DoAlib and the MEsA'io and the FERAKfD(.?) and the HagilAb and the KAsirAb and the ShukrAb and the GabAgira and the Ma'Ai'da, and their subdivisions."
cxvii For this story see Sale's Koran (p. 342) and Hughes (p. 601). The Gin was, however, called Sakhr.
MS. 3 gives "Khdsia"'for "Khas," and adds "the FellAta." Mekada here means Abyssinia. Cp. D 7 passim. The word is used, e.g. by the Takarir of Kallabat, etc., to denote the Abyssinians: it means
"slaves" (see Angl.-Eg. Sudan, i, 108).
By the " Khas" are meant the Hasa or Khasa of whom Makrizi (Descr. ^SyP^> ^i» 57 0 speaks as a Muhammadan tribe of Bega inhabiting Suakin.
The name now applies to the strongest division of the Beni 'Amir and to the language of the whole tribe (see Seligman, Journ. R. A. I. vol. XLIII,
1913, p. 600).