246 THE GUHAYNA GROUP ni. 2. ix.

I. *'Abdulla Gemd'a (a) (d. 1554-1562)

2. *Sheikh Agfb I, "elKafuta," or"el Mangilak" (6)

I (d. 1604-1611)

3. *El'Agayl(c)

*'Agib

? El Amin Aradib (d) 4. *'Abdu]la II (e) Shammam (/) (d. 1747) (d. 1689-1715)

El 'Agayl (g)

5. *Mismar (p) 6. 'Agib (/z) (d. 1779) 'Omar (j)

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j 10. 'AbduUa III (/) 7 and 9. 8. Badi (k) (d. 1799) *MiJbammad el Amin I (i) (ace. 1784) (d. 1790)

II. Nasir (w) *'Agib

(ace. 1799)

12. El Amfn II («)

13. *'Omar

(a) See D 7, v and xv. Cailliaud wrongly calls him 'Agfb.

(b) ,, D 7, V and xx. He is Cailliaud's "Mangalek el K^byr."

(c) „ D 7, XX. The Hammad el Samfh and his son 'Othman mentioned in

Cailliaud's list and in D 3 seem to have obtained the power

after this man.

(d) „ D 7, XLii.

(e) „ D 7, LViii. Cailliaud (iii, 96) wrongly calls him son of 'Agayl.

(/) „ D 7, LVIII. (g) See D 7, LVIII.

(h) „ D 7, Lxxvi. (i) „ D 7, Lxxvii and note, and CXII. 0) „ Cailliaud, Zoc. af. (k) „ D 7, Lxxxix and xc.

(/) ,, D 7, cxxxviii and cxxviii. (m) „ D 7, CXL and CLXXXVi.

(n) „ Cailliaud, loc. cit.

(p) ,, D 3, LViii. He only ruled two months. Now 'Abdulla Gema'a and his successors were more than chiefs

of the 'Abdullab: they were set in authority over all the tribes of Arabs in the valley of the Nile, excepting those in the neighbourhood

of Sennar itself where the " Mek" maintained some 12,000 Nuba "to keep the Arab in subjection^": with the aid of these the '' Mek"

used to "levy the tax upon the Arabs as they went down, out of the

limits of the rains, into the sandy countries below Atbara to protect

their cattle from the fly^."

Bruce describes Wad 'Agib's position about 1770 as follows^:

This prince was nevertheless but the Shekh of all the Arabs, to whom

they paid a tribute to enable him to maintain his dignity and a sufficient

1 Bruce, Bk. vii, Ch. 7.

^ Ibid. Ch. 8. Bruce computed that this system used to cost the Arabs yearly

half their substance. * Ibid. Ch. 9.