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 v^as 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.