332 THE KENANA AND DEGHAYM m.e.iii.

Ill Deghaym. The pedigree of the Deghaym is not given in the nishas, and in fact I have only once seen them mentioned, viz.

in D 2.

In 725 A.H. (1325 A.D.) Ibn Batuta crossed the desert between Kus and 'Aidhab in the company of a party of Deghaym, but he tells us nothing of them.

Immediately before the " Mahdta" the tribe vas living on the White Nile, and in 1881 they joined the Mahdi together with the Kenana, but they were all but exterminated at the battle of Abu Tlayh ("Abu Klea") in 1885, and they have never recovered.

See Burckhardt, Nubia, p. 533 (i).

2 The famous "amir" 'AH wad Helu was one of their number. See Slatin, Ch. IV.