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3. Kurbu 5. BÁGI (a) GidayrnuK 6. GERMük (b) Ownga 7. Mo'ük (c) Sábir 8. GennibaiüK (d) Rimayla 9. TilingbaiüK 4. Lük 10. Milla (a) Awlád Haggar 11. BULGERO (b) " Sikín 12. AKERMÜK (c) " Meddi 13. LERÍK (d) " Kera'a

XV TÁMA. Dar Táma, lying to the west of Dar Kīmr, on the Wadáī border, is more fertile and more thickly populated than either Maşálit or Kīmr. It has always been a bone of contention between the Sultans of Wadai and Därfür and has been temporarily subjected by both at different times. At other times it has preserved a measure of independence, and it has always had a Sultan of its own. Its people are spoken of by Matteucci ¹ as "de taille élevée (près de 1", 80), tête brachycéphale (350), angle facial très ouvert (81°)," and Nachtigal saw in them a close resemblance to the Dágu (of Sula, presumably), a mixture of whom with earlier Kīmr inhabitants they may represent².

Nachtigal says their dialect is similar to that of the Sungur of Wadáī and of the Dágu and the Birkeð ³, but it is more than doubtful whether, in the case of the last two peoples mentioned, he was right. Their dialect is quite distinct in vocabulary from any Dárfür tongue, if one except only that of the Erenga of Dar Maşálit.

XVI MAŞÁLÍT. The Maşálit⁴ country is 7000 to 7500 square miles in extent and is bounded to the west by Wadai, to the south by Dar Sula, to the north by Dárs Táma and Kīmr, and to the east by the Für. The central districts are undulating and sandy with numerous small rocky outcrops; the south is mountainous. The northern districts, those of the Erenga and Gebel Mūn, are more stony and unfertile: they will be dealt with separately in the following section. The great wádis Báré and Kajja, on the east and west respectively, provide an excellent water supply at a shallow depth, and deeper wells, giving a more precarious supply, are also dug inland from these two arteries.

¹ See Carbou, II, 207. ² See Carbou, II, 205. ³ Voy. au Ouadaï, pp. 66, 69, 74. Perhaps the Sungur are to be identified with the Asungür branch of Erenga (q.v. later). The Táma dialect and that of the Erenga are practically identical. ⁴ They call themselves Maşálit as a rule, but are usually known to others as Maşálit. The Táma call them Masarak.