III. 1. XXIX. THE GA'ALlfN AND DANAGLA GROUP 219

tale^ of a question asked in Omdurman—"What are the cheapest

articles and the greatest drug in the market?"—The answer was "The yellow-skinned Egyptian, the Shaikia and the dog."

XXVIII At the present, true to type, many of them are to be found

enlisted in camel-corps, mounted infantry', or police, maintaining

their reputation as good fighters but truculent neighbours. Many

others are to be found in the towns engaged in trade. As a tribe they

are too disintegrated to have any considerable power, but they own broad lands in Dongola, Berber and Khartoum Provinces, they are

still numerous throughout the Sudan, and are influential, whether

for good or evil, by virtue of their superior individuality.

XXIX The subdivisions of the Shaikia are as follows^:

A. KadenkAb Hannakab (a) Mahmudab

(b) Nasirab

(c)

(e)

(/)

\

Chiefly in Dongola

and Berber Provinces

5-

6.

7-

8.

9-

10.

II.

12.

13-

14.

15-

16.

KOTAB Sherayshab HasanAB

Shellali'l^ / Salahab. Chiefly in Dongola and Berber Provinces AssoMAB. Chiefly in Khartoum Province 'Adlanab* (a) Merawi 1 /-.1 • n •

(*) K.GHB,

I

ChjefljJ.

(c) AWLAD 'AlI

(d) Manowwarab

,

1

m Khartoum Pro- vince

Chiefly in Dongola

Province

117-

Hamdab tulbunab GURUMAB ZUMAMAB KURUSAB Marzukab y Shrenkab GherArab

'fsAYAB FaragAb^ FaragullAb, or KarAkira^^ RighaymAb. Chiefly in Dongola and Khartoum Provinces KodAb. Chiefly in Khartoum Province

1 Slatin, Ch. x.

- The following list is chiefly compiled from Nicholls, pp. 46-51.

' I.e. "Men of the Cataract" {" Shelldl" meaning "Cataract"). A section of

practicallj^ the same name occurs among the Gawama'a who appear to contain several families of Shaikia origin.

* Burckhardt mentions the 'Adlanab as being the most powerful Shafkfa tribe in 1813 (Nubia, p. 69). They are said to be Kenuz by origin (see Appendix to ABC) and also to be connected on the mother's side with the Fung (see D 5 (c)).

* Said to be children of Kadenka by a slave woman.