III. 1. XI. THE GA'ALlfN AND DANAGLA GROUP 203

Those in Kordofan have intermarried so freely with their neighbours,

the partly cognate Gawama'a and the Hawazma, and above all with

the Nuba, that they have little racial individuality remaining to them. They resemble the Nuba far more than the Dongolawi, and it is from

the former that the jeunesse doree of the Bedayria have adopted the

fashion of wearing their hair in several thick sausage-like rolls laid

longwise back from the forehead and falling at the back nearly to the

shoulders^.

They have many villages near to the south and west of el Obeid and these again have sent out numerous scattered colonies into

northern and western Kordofan. In the rains the cattle-owning Bedayria, those to the south and east that is, lead a nomadic existence

in company with the Hawazma Bakkara.

X The Terayfia are close connections and neighbours of the Nubian Bedayria, Korti and Ambukol were their ancient centres and a number remain thereabouts at the present day. Many Terayfia however have migrated elsewhere, and the majority of these are

settled in Kordofan. They probably accompanied the earliest Be- dayria emigrants, but instead of remaining with them they took up

their abode with the Gawama'a group and at the present day form one of its larger subdivisions and have become assdmilated to the

semi-negroid type^. The Terayfia who were driven from Dongola

at a later date, victims of Shaikia aggressiveness in the eighteenth

century, mostly went to Darfur and took to trading at Kobbe and

el Fasher, etc. They are still represented among the " Gelldba^" Danagla at el Fasher. Others settled at Kerri near the Shabluka

cataract^.

{b) THE GHODIAT

XI The Ghodiat^ live south of el Obeid on the very fringe of the Nuba country, and the connection between them and the rest of the

so-called Ga'aliin group, though apparent from all the Ga'ali

'^)iisbas," is somewhat theoretical.

In tradition they are very closely connected with the ancient

tribes of the Kunan and the KusAs who are now extinct in the Sudan. The former are said to have lived at Rera in Kassala Province and to have been extirpated by the Shukria.

^ The Hawazma have adopted the same custom but not to quite the same extent.

" For the subdivisions of the Gawama'a-Terayfia see sub Gawama'a.

' " Gelldba" are small traders, generally pedlars.

* Nicholls, p. 19.

* Sing. "Ghadawi." The MSS. almost universally spell "Kodidt" and " I^a- dawi," but the confusion between ,J and c is so common that no reliance can be placed on the correctness of that spelling.^