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222 THE GA'ALlfN AND DANAGLA GROUP iii. i. xxx.

To the Na'amab belonged Zubayr Pasha Rahma, the famous slavedealer and conqueror of the Bahr el Ghazal and Darfur.

In the Fung period the whole Gamu'ia-Gema'ab-Gimi'ab group, as well as the Zenarkha, who are of quite different stock, were subject to the ''nahds" of the " Mek" of the Gamu'Ia, and he again was nominally responsible for the tribute to the 'Abdullabi " Mdngil" of el Halfaya.

The SuRURAB section, however, were partially detached from the rest of the Gamu'ia and enjoyed a sufficient measure of favouritism from the Fung king to free them from all practical control by the Gamu'ia "Mek." The headquarters of the latter were near J. el Hinayk, south of Omdurman.

The subdivisions of the Gamu'ia proper are as follows: Nailab Hirayzab

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