244 THE GUHAYNA GROUP 111.2.VI.

The KamAtir, or Awlad Kamtur, have now all but died out as a

result of constant warfare with the Fung in the eighteenth century. Their

chief, who was usually known by the tribal name of Kamtur, had the

right of wearing the "takia^.'^ His domains stretched from Karkoj to

Rosayres.

X. Razkia. These, like the 'Arakiin, claim descent from AshrAf. They

are the only section of Rufa'a (if Rufa'a they be) who live north of the

junction of the Niles.

VII The Guhayna Proper. Now although the term " Guhayna "

is applied vaguely by other tribes to all the Rufa'a, and more especi-

ally those of the south, the Rufa'a el Shark and Rufa'a el Huoi,

there is living near these a group of small tribes to w^hom the term is more especially applicable and to whom the Rufa'a themselves apply

the term Guhayna: these are the Ma'ashira, the Genana, the RuKABiN^, the Ga'afira and the Rowashda. They are largely nomadic in habit. A few of them are settled in villages, but most

graze vdth the Rufa'a el Shark round Kala'a Arang, el 'Idayd and

Suki. They are not numerous and they are now subject to the Shu-

KRiA of Kassala Province.

VIII The LahAwiIn^. These are related to the Rufa'a group and

are practically all nomads. One portion of them have for many

generations lived on the east bank of the White Nile between el Kawa and Gebelayn and inland*. These are often spoken of as "Nas Wad

el Labayh." The other portion is more given to camel-breeding, and has its grazing-grounds farther east in the neighbourhood of

el Fasher on the Atbara. These latter were for several generations

attached to the Kababish and lived in northern Kordofan and were known as the Guhayna section ; but they quarrelled with the "nazir "

of the Kababish in 19 10 and moved eastwards over the Nile. They

are now under the Shukria. Their well-known camel brand is a

*'tubd'a" on the left side of the nose with a " kildda^' on the left

side of the neck^.

^ Jackson, p. 91 note. For Muhammad Kamtur see MS. "D7," passim.

2 Cp. Rikdbia.

' The name Lahawi is said to be derived from the "lahawia" or great bag in which the nomads carry grain, gum, etc. The root is the same as that of "liha"

(bark-fibre) and occurs also in the name of the Luhaywdt Arabs who Hve in Sinai among the tribes of T(h. These Luhaywat are said to be a subdivision of the Mesa'fd branch of the Beni 'Atfa and ancient companions of the Beni 'Ukba. (See Na'um Bey, Hist. Siiiai..., p. 117.) There is also, to the north-east, a section of 'Anaza called Lahawln (Burckhardt, Notes..., i, 4 and 30).

* Cailliaud (in, 94) notes them on the west bank of the White Nile above Khartoum in 1821. He calls them " Ellahouyehs."

^ "Lahawwy" is mentioned by Doughty (Arabia Des. i, 125) and Zwemer

(p. 279) as the name of an Arab tribe in Arabia at the present time. The brand of

these is iV.