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The most serious and numerous of these were with the Kababish,

with whom the Hamar were at perpetual feud^.

The power of the Hamar increased so rapidly that by 1876 Ensor

considered them " the richest of all the nomads in this part of Africa,

far exceeding in number the nomad portion of the Kabbabbeesh, and almost equalling the whole of that tribe including the settlers on

the banks of the Nile^." They lost nearly all their wealth in the Der-

vish days, and at the reoccupation the Kababish looted from them much of what was left.

XX They are now almost entirely sedentary, but fairly rich in camels and sheep. They occupy large tracts of gum forest and cultivation

north of el Odaya Abu Zabad and Abu Haraz, and west of Abu Sinun and Mazrub.

None of the Hamar remain in Darfur, if one except a small colony

of Sahanin (Awlad Sahnun) who live with the Zaghawa in the

north round Hashaba and are said to be Hamar in origin.

The 'AsAKiRA, the Dekakim, and the Gharaysia, of whom the

last-named split away from the Dekakim between 1873 ^^^ 1^77'

are now each under a separate ndzir.

XXI The subdivisions of the Hamar are as follows

: