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The former are more sedentary, poorer and less numerous than
the latter. They have several villages in the gum forests south of Gebel Um " Shidera," at Kadmul, and in the well-less district south
of Um Dam, where for several months in the year water-melons form
the sole supply of water, and near Abu Zabad in western Kordofan. A portion of the last-named colony are almost entirely nomadic and
are known as the Ga'adi'a^. There are also a few villages of Baza'a
in eastern Darfur round Gebel Tisoma: a century ago the number was greater^.
The subdivisions of the tribe in Kordofan are as follows
:
A. Mahmudia^ E. Nowakia, or Nowakat^
1. Hamdilla fi. Farisia
2. AWLAD NaSIR J 2. SUBAYHAT
3. ,, EL AhAYMER
I 3. AWLAD 'AbD EL RaHMAN
4. Sa'ida 1 4. „ EL Bashir
5. AwTAD 'Abd el Mahmud F. Husana
B. Shafa'ia G. Awlad Dan
C. 'Ayadi'a, or Abu 'Ayad H. Keraymat D. Ga'adia J. Razaka
/i. Awlad Hasan K. Um Ti'man
1 2. „ HUSAYN L. FUAYDA
(k) THE SHENABLA
XXX The name Shenabla (" Esshenabele ") was noticed by
Burckhardt in 18 10 as the name of an Arab tribe living in the hills
near Damascus to the south-east and paying some deference to the
Druses^. Burton says^ they were notorious thieves and had always been so. There are also Shenabla Beduin at the present day in Egypt
to the east of the river^.
It is therefore probable that the Shenabla of the Sudan are an
offshoot of the above.
They are primarily a nomad camel-owning tribe, who graze over
^ These may perhaps have some connection with the Beni Ga'ad section of Ikrima who were round Aswan in the fourteenth century. (See Part II, Chap. 2.)
^ S.S.W. of Lake Chad, near what is now the eastern border of northern
Nigeria, Earth met "the Baza, a powerful and independent pagan tribe with a language, or probably dialect, of their own, and peculiar customs"; but beyond
the similarity of the names there would seem nothing to connect these with the
Baza'a. (See Barth, Vol. 11, Ch. xxxiii, p. 409.)
^ The eponymous ancestor's son married a woman of the Awlad IJawal section
of Kabdbish.
^ Their camel brand is a "nun" (the Arabic letter «) or "naki" on the right
side. Hence their name.
^ Burton, Unexplored Syria, i, 148. Cp. Burckhardt, Notes..., 1, 18.
« Ibid.
' Klippel, p. 8 ("El Chenablah").