202 THE GA'ALlfN AND DANAGLA GROUP m. i. vi.

emigrate to the south-west and join their kin in Kordofan or push

further west into Darfur^.

About the middle of the eighteenth century a certain Balul, one

of the chieftains of the Bedayria in Kordofan, moved northwards from Abu Haraz, conquered Kaga Surrug on the Darfur border, and made his headquarters Gebel Bishara Taib or "Kab Balul." He

was, however, ousted thence by the invading Musaba'at from Darfur and was compelled to take refuge with the remnants of his folk at Kaga Soderi and Katul. Here the Bedayria gradually became merged

in the older population.

VII The Bedayria in Kordofan now divide themselves into two main groups and a number of subdivisions, as follows:

Dahmashi'a