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nineteenth century were laid by the famous Abu Sin family. Its

ancestor was Nail, son of the Sha'a el Din wad el Tuaym, whose tomb, with that of his wife Bayaki bint el Mek^, is still to be seen at

the south-east foot of Gebel Kayli, on the edge of the Butana; and from Nail and his brother el Nur are descended most of the Shukria

sections of the present day.

Nail lived nine generations ago, that is, probably, early in the

seventeenth century, and the table of his male descendants, or such

of them as are known, is as follows:

Nafl

I 'Adlan

I Muhammad

Abu 'Ali

'AH

'Awad el Kerfm

..

I \ 1 1 \ 1 1 Ahmad Bey ^ Muhammad Hasan 'Adlan 'Omdra Hammad ^ 'Ali

T i I i i i i i i i i \ i i 1 i i i i I ~i i T

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i \ I 1 Hammad * Muhammad 'Ali el Hadd 'Abdulla^ (four other

I

, ' > r

' ' sons) (three sons) (three sons) (four sons) (six sons)

^ His sons, as shewn above, are in no exact order.

* See D 7 cxciii.

* The name denotes a hard rider. "Hardellu" used to guide the tribe when changing their pasture, riding fabulous distances to find out where was the best grazing and where the rain-water lay most plentifully.

* Head of the Shukria of Kassala.

* Head of the Shukria in the Blue Nile Province.

The earliest of these about whom we have any information is Abu 'Ali, who about 1779 was killed in a revolt of the Shukria

against the Fung 2.

^ According to some accounts the " Mek" was a Mek of Sennar, i.e. it was a Fung princess whom Sha'a el Din wedded and brought to Gebel Kayli. According to another and much more likely account she was a daughter of the (pagan ?) Mek of Kayli. She is said to have lived on the top of the hill and her people at the foot of it. The graves mentioned consist of an inner and an outer ring of stones, the former being about the size of the corpse and the outer being made merely to prevent the floods washing away the inner.

^ See D 7, Lxxv.