98 THE NON-ARAB RACES OF DARFUR i. 4. xx.

included in IMasalit, is really a separate district between the latter and Dar Kimr. Numerous Erenga and Masalit now live among

the Fur outside their own ddrs.

The Fur of Fia divide themselves into Mogunga (called after Gebel Mogu), Andunga {" ancia" in Fur means a scout), Madringa, Abtunga (called after Gebel Abtu), Elganga (called after the tonsils:

it is said the Fia people were once expert at cutting them out of

children's throats), Mailunga (called after Gebel Mailo) and IsA- khung (called after an ancestor 'Isakha, the Darfur form of 'Ishak^). The Shartdi of Fia, like the Niamaton, has no idea of tribal sub-

divisions as distinct from local groups of mixed origin.

On the eastern side of Gebel Marra lives the Umungowi. This name is formed from Abo Uma (the Sultan's "left hand"), as " Dumungozci" is from Abo Dima^, and his people may be referred

to as Umunga. His country seems once to have theoretically in-

cluded, as the old maps shew, the territories of the Rizaykat and

other Bakkara, the Bayko, Birked and Dagu, but he is now re-

stricted to a very limited area in the hills.

As would be expected the Umungowi claims that he and the

majority of his people are Kungara, and they do, no doubt, contain

a Kungara element, especially in the case of the ruling clan, the Mayringa, whom we have already met in the Dumungowi's country

to the west.

He divides his people into nine "wurrdri" (a word used among

all the Fur to denote their various groups), namely:

Mayringa Turug KungAra Miri Z6mi Suni* SOmbi^ Wanna, including (a) Nuygonga^ DuLLO (b) Turn

All the above are subject to the Mayringa. As regards their ante-

cedents he is vague, but the Dullo, the Suni and the Wanna (or Wannanga) he classes as " Gebbala" or Hillmen, and for the Wanna

he admits a slave origin^.

^ There is also a Gebel 'Isakha in Ffa, but it is denied that the Isdkhung are named after it.

* His territories were bounded to the north by Dar Dali, or Abo Ddli (the

Sultan's "trunk"), which was subject to the Abo Sheikh and extended to the

eastern frontier.

' The word means a spear.

* The word denotes a small dark species of dove common in Ddrfur and Kordofdn.

* Cp. the Dumungowi's list.

* A certain Gayta ibn Salab, he says, was their ancestor. Gayta was "a slave

of Pharaoh of Egypt."