300 THE GUHAYNA GROUP lii.s.xxv.

XXV The Nawaiba of the north are the same in type as the Mahamid but fewer, and Hve among them. In addition to these and

the Nawaiba among the Rizaykat in the south, there is an inde- pendent Bakkara tribe of Nawaiba in south-eastern Wadai^.

XXVI The MAHRiA fall under the same classification as the Ma- hamid and Nawaiba, and are usually mentioned in company with

them^. Those in Darfur live with the Mahamid between Kuttum and Gebel Marra at the present day and are not numerous. Their

sections are

:

/ Hamdania TAwlad KAid

1 Um Ahmad ) „ Bazki

^ Awlad Henani 1 „ Sa'id

„ 'Ali y „ Dirai Bishara

XXVII Akin to them and generally claimed to be Mahria are the camel-owning 'Atayfat^ who live round Mellit and in Anka district

to the north. There they are subdivided into Awlad Baraka, Awlad 'Agayl and Awlad Gowna. They say they have also two sections, Hagaia and Awlad Nusr in Wadai, and one, the 'Akakiz, in southern Darfur with the Rizaykat.

XXVIII The 'Eraykat also belong to the same group*. They were

chiefly in north-western Darfur until the time of the Sultan Muham- mad Fadl, but that ruler attacked them and decimated their numbers and delivered their grazing-grounds over to the Mahamid and others. The survivors fled northwards. At present most of the 'Eraykat are camel-owners round el Fasher and in the north-west. Some are

further afield in the Ennedi district with the Bedayat and in Dar Tama^. El Tunisi^ also mentions them as a rich Bakkara tribe in

south-western Wadai, but his story to the effect that their name was

derived from el 'Irak, i.e. Mesopotamia, and that they were con-

nected v/ith the Beni Lakhm and Gudham ("Djouzamides") was

probably pure invention. The 'Eraykat of Darfur are divided into Zebelat on the one hand and a group consisting of Dimaysat,

Nasria, Awlad Kerru and MinawIa on the other.

^ Nachtigal mentions them as camel-owners in Wadai: see Voy. au Ouadai,

pp. 40, 50, 72, 109; and cp. map to el Tunisi's Ouaddy and Carbou, loc. cit.

^ E.g. see Nachtigal, Ouadai, pp. 65, 70, 72, 93; Tunisi's map, etc. See also Carbou, 11, 78-79.

' Their name is no doubt formed from a diminutive of '"utfa" (see note to MS. D 3, 132). It also occurs as that of a section of 'Anaza in northern Arabia, (Burckhardt, Notes..., i, 4).

* Cp. Nachtigal, Ouadai, p. 72. ^ Carbou, 11, pp. 74, 75

® Ouaday, p. 250 and map.