284 THE GUHAYNA GROUP iii. 3. x.

with this family of traditional ancestors. To take the case of four prominent Hawazma: one in his pedigree gives eight generations as interposing between himself and "Delam" the eponymous ancestor of the DELAMfA, one gives six and one varies between seven and eight. So among the Awlad Nuba seven generations are said to have lived between the present sheikh and " Nuba." One may guess that until seven or eight generations, or 200 to 300 years ago, the Hawazma did not exist as a separate tribe, but that the ancestors of the non-alien element among them were counted (e.g.) Messi'ria until they became numerous and powerful enough to break away and call themselves Hawazma.

(e) MESSfRfA, HUMR, TA'ELBA, HOtIA, SA'ADA AND TERGAM XI The MESsfRiA and Humr were at one time a single tribe and known respectively as the Messi'ria Zurruk ("dark") and the MessiRiA Humr ("red "2).

One finds them as a rule so referred to in the works of travellers who met them in the nineteenth century in Darfur and west of it.

In Kordofan, however, the two divisions have become so distinct that the Humr no longer rate themselves Messiria at all, and each tribe has its own " JaV" and its own sheikhs.

XII liUMR. The Humr are divided into the Agaira and the Felaita, and these two independent divisions are again subdivided as follows*: The Agaira A, 'Aial Khayr AwLAD Kamil I (a) Dar Muta (b) „ Um Shayba (c) „ Salim < (d) AwlAd Kimayl el /(i) Um Sall6g ! Hamra \(2) Um Ga'ar (e) El FakAri'n H/) AwlAd Tuba Taken from Capt. A. L. Hadow's notes.

This subdivision of Arabs into Humr and Zurruk is not confined to the Messfria (see Barth, Vol. in, App. 7). It may have coincided originally with the division into northern and southern, camel-owners and cattle-owners, but there is no real evidence that that is so.

See, e.g., Nachtigal, Voy. au Ouaddi, p. 70; Barth, Vol. in, App. 7, p. 545; and El Tunisi {Darfur), p. 129.

* These lists will be seen to differ in certain details from those given in Chap, xi of my Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofan. For most of the corrections I am indebted to Mr C. A. Willis, who for some years was Inspector of Western Kordofan, and whose lists I have compared with those compiled by the late Capt. W. Lloyd, Mr J. W. Sagar and myself.