82 THE NON-ARAB RACES OF DARFUR i. 4. x.

TiRTUSHKI, or TlRTEJKE^ MASEK^ LUDUKE^ TlLANG]^ DiSAKE^ SHERMITKi Nyogolgole^ Mahange Kalakalika^

Outside Darfur there are said to be many Bayko, with Dagu, between Tekali and the White Nile in Dar Kebi'r, and a considerable

colony of Nyogolgole are said to have lived for many generations at

Kafiakingi in the Bahr el Ghazal^.

The Bayko call themselves Beoge. To the Fur they are known

as Begonga, to the Tama as Begukung, to the Dagu as Beoge, and

to the Birked as Beke.

XI There are also in Darfur several tribes of distinctively western

origin, Fellata, Takarir, "Borku," "Bornu," Mima, "Abu SiNUN," and Mararit. Of these the Mima are the oldest colony.

Mima. The town of IVIima is mentioned by Ibn Batuta in the middle of

the fourteenth century as lying not far to the west of Timbuktu : of

the latter town the traveller remarks "most of its inhabitants are people of Mima, or of the tribes called el Mulaththamun^ " {i.e. the Veiled Ones, the Tuwarek Berber).

Apparently they, or a branch of them, subsequently moved east-

wards. El Tunisi says of them in 1803 :

Les Mymeh constituent una population qui se compose de plusieurs

tribus divisees en fractions. lis sont d'un noir fonce comma da I'ancre.

lis habitant au sud direct du Ouaday, sur la mama ligna que les Dadjo

et les Koukah*. He also alludes to a branch of them as under a tributary Sultan in

Darfur^. Nachtigal mentions them as a large tribe in Wadai, but most of them had scattered in the south of that country and lost their

racial identity. The rest of them preserved their language, which was

akin to that of the Zaghawa and the Kura'an, and had a meltk

of their own*'. Their social reputation was, like that of the Zaghawa, unsavoury, and they had largely intermarried with that tribe.

^ These are Gharbanfn and can be referred to as "genadi," i.e. sections subject to the "gindi."

'^ Their headman is spoken of as " Makdum Nasir."

^ See Cooley, pp. 45, 84, 86. Older writers than Ibn Batuta used the form " Amima."

• Voy. au Ouaday, p. 249.

^ Voy. au Darfour, pp. 128, 138, 297. These were at feud with the Beni 'Omrdn Arabs.

' Voy. au Ouadai, pp. 65, 74, 75; and cp. Carbou, u, 199; the latter calls them "Mimi ou Moutoutou."