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 eastwards. 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."