298 THE GUHAYNA GROUP m.3.xxii.

the peninsula, I found two who were named respectively Ziud and ROWASHDA.

There are also a few Ziud incorporated among the Humr Felaita^

in Kordofan.

In dealing with the Hawazma attention was drawn to the con-

nection that existed between that tribe and the Beni Harb of Arabia. The same connection appears to exist in the case of some at least of

the Beni Rashid, for the Zebaydia (corresponding to the Zebada of

the west) are properly a section of the Beni '(3f branch of the Beni Harb^.

(2) THE NAWAfBA, MAHRIA, MAHAMID, 'ERAYKAT

AND 'ATAYFAT

XXIII There remain to be considered the five camel-owning tribes

of northern Darfur and Wadai who are of the same stock as the Bakkara. Three of these, the Nawaiba, the Mahria and the Ma- HAMID, have been already mentioned as composing in the south of Darfur the great tribe of the Rizaykat: the fourth is the 'Eraykat, and the fifth the 'Atayfat.

All alike claim the Guhayna connection and either entered Darfur and Wadai in the fourteenth century or rather later^.

XXIV The Mahamid are spoken of by el Tunisi , who passed through

their country*, as a powerful tribe containing many subdivisions and owning great herds of camels, horses and other wealth in northern

Wadai^. He says, too, that they have "presque la nuance claire des

^figyptiens^." In his work on Darfur he also mentions them among

the Fezara ["Fararah"] group in the north'^.

Nachtigal includes the Mahria, the Nawaiba, the 'Eraykat and

the 'Atayfat in the term Mahamid. He says of them^:

Las Mahamid's peuvent fournir au moins quatre mille cavaliers. lis

sont rougeatres et ont bon caractere; on les dit pieux, bienfaisants et

^ See list of subsections on p. 286, above.

- Burton, Pilgrimage..., 11, 120. He calls them " Zubayd...near Mecca, a numer- ous clan of fighting thieves."

* M. Carbou speaks (11, 77) on the authority of Slatin (Bk. i, Ch. 2) of the genesis of the Nawaiba, Mahria and Mahamid as being due to the policy of the Sultan Muhammad Fadl who, having subdued the Rizaykat, transplanted many of them to northern Darfur where they "eventually developed into" the three tribes mentioned. This is misleading. Muhammad Fadl may have transplanted Rizaykat

to the north, but they were only rejoining their kinsfolk there and were absorbed

into them afresh. ^ Voyage au Ouaday, p. 512.

^ Ibid. pp. 250, 251. Cp. Barth, Vol. in, App. 7, p. 545. * Voyage au Ouaday, p. 400. Contrast Carbou, 11, 80, "un type noir aux traits

reguliers."

' Voyage au Darfour, p. 129. ^ Voyage au Ouaddi, p. 72.