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-