230 THE GA'ALlfN AND DANAGLA GROUP in. i. xxxv.

their herds and broke up the tribe. Some were sent to Omdurman

and others settled in Sennar Province^.

At the reocciipation such Gima'a as survived returned to the west

bank of the White Nile and now, in spite of all, they are probably

as numerous as they were before the Mahdia.

Some of the 'Abbaysab branch own camels and have attached

themselves to the Kawahla. The rest are cattle and sheep owners.

They are subdivided as follows^

:

A. ManATA B6l3 Muhammad

„ Nasr Walad Hammad

Hasan

B. 'AsHAYSH I. 'AbbaysAb

2. Gahaka

MesadAb Dar AwAb rowashda HULUF TfNA

a) AmumIn

b) Um FezAri

c) BrayshAb

d) SaylAb

e) KambuiAb

/) Guda

g) UMGiA(GiR?)

h) KenAna

a) Meshamir

b) 'AiAl 'Ukla

c) „ KtJKU

d) DeranAb

KanAbit

/) 'AiAl SArin

g) „ Adam

h) SiAgh

j) Um Danud

k) 'AiAl Muhammad

The most powerful and numerous of these sections are the B6l Muhammad and the Bol Nasr, and it is said the former is nearly

twice the size of the latter.

The 'Ashaysh are not very numerous but are more homogeneous.

1 Slatin, Chaps, xi and xvi.

^ The spelling of these names may not in all cases be entirely accurate : they were

obtained at second hand.

^ The word "bol" (jj^^) properly means "urine." It is evidently used as the

equivalent of "seed."