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drum to be beaten in order to announce that the king had been crowned.
...The newly-crowned king then returned to his people with the 'tagia' and 'kukur,' for which reason the Abdelab were called 'the people of the "tagia" and "kukur."'"
A " Mdngil" was invested not only with a "takia" turban but with a
{'emma), a sword, a robe and, perhaps, a ''heikali" or gold chain (see
Jackson, pp. 92 and 95); and it is impossible not to connect these insignia with those of "Jausar who wore the turban and the two horns and the golden bracelet" in the thirteenth century at Bujaras, the capital of the
district which lay between Aswan and Korosko (see p. 177). Deherain (p. 59, quoting Junker, Reisen, I, loi and 108) says: "Le roi
\s.c. of Sennar] remet a celui qu'il agree le signe du commandement, le Taquie el Qarne, bonnet de velours ou de soie bariolee orne de deux appendices en forme de cornes." The Fung king was allowed by the Turks
after the conquest to retain the right to wear the " takia."
At the conquest of Darfur, hats of the same description were found in
the Sultan's camp. They were worn on gala days by his chief bugler and
the " Khashkhangia" (blunderbuss-men) of the royal guard.
The title of "Mdngil" always carried with it a considerable tract of land.
(b) THE BENI 'OMRAN
XII The Beni 'Omran are a tribe of indeterminate origin. They
claim to be Ashraf but the "nisbas" class them as Guhayna. A few of them are scattered in the central Kordofan villages among
the BEDAYRfA and others live in eastern Darfur, more especially near
the Kordofan frontier. These latter divide themselves into
:
TAWLAD EL MaNSUR
Shafalik Shellali'n AwLAD Malik Beni 'Atif, or 'Awatifa^ (near Wada'a) Tergamia
'AiAL Muhammad
,, MUHAGIR
,, IbrAhi'm
,, Hasan
and state they came from Diraw in Upper Egypt, some seven genera-
tions ago, as traders and "fukara." In type they resemble the
Bedayria. They may be connected with the 'Omran noticed by
Burckhardt^ near 'Akaba.
(c) THE AWAMRA, the KHAWALDA, THE 'AMARNA
AND THE FADNIA
XIII The first three of these tribes are unimportant semi-sedentary
folk, each with some score of villages and herds of sheep and goats
in the Gezira.
^ Cp. " 'Atayfat." '^ Notes..., 11, g.