ilJ.i3.vi. RASHAIDA, ZEBAYDfA, HADAREB AND HUDUR 347

lecting customs dues. The tribe was administered by its own sheikh and was on bad terms with all the Bega tribes of the interior.

Earlier in the same work Burckhardt, speaking of Shendi, says^: The most substantial of all the traders who at present frequent the Shendy market are the people from Souakin, or as they are more commonly

called in this part of Africa, the Hadharebe, or Hadharame, that is, people

of Hadremaut, in South Arabia, from whence they draw their origin.

He notes in addition that the caravans of the Hadarba also visited Sennar and el Obeid.

V The Hadareb are great travellers, and more of them have wandered eastwards from Hadramaut to Java and India than west- wards to Africa. Zwemersays:

Large colonies of Hadramis emigrated to the Dutch Archipelago more than a century ago ; intermarriage between the Javanese 2nd the Arabs is

ver}' common; and the Mohammedanism of the Dutch East Indies is

entirely of the Hadramaut type^.

VI HUDUR. The name Beni Hudur appears in el Mas'udi^ as that

of an ancient and powerful people of Arabia of unknown origin and

locality, to whom, on account of their iniquity, God sent a prophet

in the Days of Ignorance. Him they put to death, but the prophet Baruch then applied to Bokht Nasir (Nebuchadnezzar) who attacked them and destroyed them.

The term HupuR, as used at present, expresses little more than Arab traders from outside the Sudan. At Nuba village (Blue Nile)

there are some who are said to be Howara by descent, and there are

others at Elti and elsewhere on the Blue Nile. The town of Arbagi,

before its destruction by the Shukria, is said to have been peopled by HupuR,and its founder, Hegaziibn Ma'in, the ancestor of the Geli'lab

of Wad Rawa, is usually called a Hadari instead of being connected with the Guhayna group to which his descendants have attached

themselves^.

To the same group, therefore, may belong the Dafiria, Dekinab, FukadAb, Farisab, Garab, Keringab and such other small indeter- minate communities in the same neighbourhood as are alleged by the Gelilab to be descended from the same stock as themselves, namely from that of Hegazi ibn Ma'in.

It seems more than probable, as their name suggests, that the real HuptJR are merely Hadareb under a variant designation, though the term has come to be used colloquially in a wider and vaguer sense.

^ Nubia, p. 319. - Arabia..., p. 77. ^ Ch. xlvii, Vol. m, pp. 304 ff.

* See B I and Tree. The Sheikh who gave me the MS. of B i said the Geh'Iab belonged to the Dubania branch of Guhayna, a statement borne out neither by tradition nor his own pedigree.