336 THE HAWAWfR, GELLABA HOWARA, iii.s.ii.

[HarArin fHAMASiN [Tamasih J MUALKA J SaLHAB ) 'AmRAB I RubAb I GoTAB \ Fakakin [HobAzab [FezarAb ['AbbAsAb III GellAba HowAra. The Gellaba Howara are more numerous in Darfur than in Kordofan. In the latter province they have villages between el Obeid and Bara and in Um Ruaba district. The people of these relate that their ancestors came from Upper Egypt, and claim relationship with the Hawawir. Their land they obtained from the Gawama'a some eight to nine generations ago. In type they are very dark and degraded and entirely unlike the sallow HawAwir of the north, who hold them in contempt. Their divisions in Kordofan are: KawAmna Adawla DikayrAb AwlAd KaysAn From their title of "Gellaba" it is likely that, as they state, they came originally as pedlars; and in Darfur the majority of them are engaged in trade at the present day or live close to the capital, el Fasher. These latter, like their relatives in Kordofan, still remember their Upper-Egyptian origin. The chief branch of them is the WAhi'a.

IV Kor6bAt. The KorobAt are generally reckoned so cognate to the GellAba HowAra as to be all but identical with them. They are confined to the western Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur that is, and the greater part of them are settled in north-western Darfur near the Kimr border.

Nachtigal tells us that they at one period inhabited Dar Kimr and were driven thence by the FuR. Both he and Barth include them also among the " Arabs " of Wadai, and the former states they claimed to be of Yemenite stock. At the present day those in Darfur allege a descent from the Beni Shayba of Arabia. Their subdivisions they give as: 'Abu Um Bukr AwlAd el Feki „ Abu Amna „ FiNEl' \ „ Maskin The word means "crocodiles." Compare the tribal brand of the Mogharba on the Blue Nile, also of Berber extraction (p. 318).

2 Sah. und Sudan, in, 455, ap. Carbou, n, 94.

' Ibid. Ill, 71.

* "I, 545-