III. 3. XXIV. THE GUHAYNA GROUP 299 hospitaliers ; ils parlent I'arabe le plus pur. lis habitent au Nord-Ouest du Dar Minii....Les fractions de cette tribu sont nombreuses, j'ai pu reconnaitre les suivantes: les Oulad Djellou, les Oulad Cheik, les Oulad Yassin, les Oulad Zed, les Nedja's, les Seif ed din (ou Seifan), les Naouaiba's, les Erekat's, les Mahariye's (Mehriya?), les Oulad Djenab, les Hamdiya's, les Et teiyifat's*.

These Nachtigal classes among the camel-owning nomads. His estimate of their character was not accurate. They are and always have been inveterate raiders; " intelligents, astucieux, menteurs"; lax in their religion and resentful of all control. Among them is a smattering of Kura'an.

The number of camel-owning Mahami'd in northern Darfur since the " Mahdia' has been inconsiderable in comparison with those living farther west, but about 1908 a number of Mahami'd (AwLAD Shaik) from Wadai, commonly known as "Um Gallul," migrated into Darfur and settled with the Shotia and Awlad Shaik sections north of el Fasher—where they say they had been some three or four generations previously, before they went to Wadai. In 1914 some of these migrated still farther east and went to Kordofan. In 19 1 6, on the death of 'AH Dinar, they returned to Darfur.

The subdivisions of the northern Mahamid in Darfur correspond fairly closely to those of the Bakkara branch who form a third of the Rizaykat : they are as follows : A. Awlad Shaik 1. Um Sayf el Din 2. Um Gallul (a) Awlad Gilal (i) Awlad 'Id (b) Awlad Mablul (c) „ BlLAYLI (d) „ EL RiFAYIK (e) „ Tako (/) ,, Rashid' B. Awlad Yasin. Already mentioned as being cattle-owners and living in an intermediate position between the southern Bakkara and the camel-owners.

C. Shotia D. Awlad Zayt. Partly camel- and partly cattle-owning. They live round Tina, between el Fasher and Gebel Marra.

I.e. in Wurada district: see Carbou, ii, 79.

Presumably the "Um Gallul" mentioned later.

' Cp. subsections of Mahamid among the Rizaykat as given above, and Carbou II, 83.

* I.e. the 'Atayfat, for whom see later.

Carbou, 11, 80, quoting Lieut. Lucien. * Carbou, 11, 83.

' Awlad Rashid from Wadai who have attached themselves to the Um Gallul.