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The Beni Helba of Darfur are a particularly low type of Arab,

poor in spirit and physique, incurably lazy and with none of the

finer qualities that distinguish the nomad Arabs of Kordofan.

(;) BENI KHUZAM

XIX The Beni Khuzam are for the most part in Wadai and Dar

Sula. A few of them are in Darfur and these are at the present moment, and since 19 14, refugees living among the RizaykAt.

The tribe belongs to the Haymad group of Bakkara and through

it claims descent from the Beni Makhzum of Arabia^.

In Wadai a portion in the south are Bakkara and a portion in

the north owners of camels^. Since 1904 many of them have entered

the ranks of the "Arabes refugies au Fitri." Others, again, are in

Bakirmi^ with the Salamat, and in Bornu^.

M. Carbou subdivides those west of Darfur as follows^:

A. Bahariye/i. GulAd 'Ali

2. Gulad Afan

3. Am Zihefe

4. Gulad Abou Fahil

\ 5. Gulad Zait

'

6. Kanabke ("ou El MehAmid")

7. Gulad Makram

8. Gulad Hebe

etc.

B. Alaling ("ou Alalik^").

He also mentions as subdivisions of the Beni Khuzam the " OulAd Abou Assaf, Omeirat et Qebesat." These latter and some of the Kanabka are in Bornu.

The Khuzam in Darfur speak of themselves as closely connected

with the Beni Husayn and divided into Baharia and 'Alalik. The

former consist, they say, of Hammuda and GemA'a, the latter of Tmayrat {i.e. the "Omeirat" mentioned), Asheddad and Sayf.

Mostly in Bakirmi

^ Carbou, li, 71-74. Barth (Vol. in, App. 7, p. 545) makes them the fourth

largest tribe of Arabs in Wadai. For the Beni Makhzum see Wiistenfeld, R.

- It would be these of whom Nachtigal {Ouaddi, p. 71) says: " Physiquement

ils ressemblent aux Djaadina's, mais sont allies avec les Zoghaoua's (Amm Kim- melte)." The "Djaadina" he describes as of a colour "legerement grisatre et rougeatre: ils sont a peu pres pur sang arabes" {loc. cit.).

^ Cp. map in El Tunisi's Oitaday..., and Carbou, 11. 8.

* Ibid. Those in Bornu are said to have only settled there about 1830.

* Ibid. I preserve M. Carbou's spelling.

* Some of these also are in Bakirmi. Ibid.