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O. TowAL, or TowALiiN. Chiefly in el Ma'atuk and Kawa districts. They are said to be a branch of the Hammada.

P. Shabarka As regards this section it is interesting to note that Shabarka also occur

in the northern hills of Kordofan^, where they are called Shaberko and

are said to have immigrated from the Blue Nile in ancient days and to have spread even further westwards into Darfur. They are also said, at el Haraza,

to be connected with the Tov^al section of Kababish. As the Towal also appear in the list of Rufa'a tribes, and their name and that of the Sha- barka were given me one after the other, it is a fair presumption that some

of the Rufa'a passed into Kordofan and mixed, some with the Nuba of

el Haraza and some with the nomads north-west of them, while others reached Darfur.

That there were also cases of movement in the opposite direction is evidenced by the existence of two villages on the Nile called "el Nuba," one near el Kamlin and one north of Khartoum, both of which are said to have been formed by colonies from el Haraza. In the case of the former

village it is said seven Nuba from Kordofan were allotted land there by

the Fung and their daughters were married by Arabs.

Q. HiLALIA

R. 'Akaliin. This subtribe was all but wiped out by the famine of

1889^, but it has recovered and large numbers now live round Sennar and in Mesallamia district, with scattered villages in the Gezira and on the White Nile.

S. Beni Hasan^

fi. Wad Balula

1 2. 'Atamla. Abu Rof's own family.

1 3 . Wad Abu Sirwal

[ etc. Their habitat is south of el Manakil and between Singa and Rosayres.

T. Beni Husayn^. They live with the Beni Hasan and west of them

to the White Nile. U. Hammada^

I' I. Rahahla

- 2. Ghuzz

[3. Ribay'at These are the "Nas Abu Gin" proper. In Fung days their chief had the rank of " Mdngir' and the right of wearing the two-horned " takia."

In 1889 they and the Akaliin suffered equally^. Their habitat is on the Rahad and the Binder. The capital of the Abu Gin was at Deberki.

V. 'Ulatiin^. Semi-nomadic. They have villages in the east and the west of the Gezira. W. Zamalta^

I. Kamatir^

^ See MacMichael, Tribes..., p. 97. - Slatin, Ch. xiii.

* These sections are closely connected. Almost all are in Sennar Province, in the neighbourhood of Singa. * Slatin, loc. cit.

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