58 THE NON-ARAB RACES OF DARFUR i. 4. iv.

At present the ZaghAwa are divided into several large sections, of w^hich the chief are the following^

:

Arteyt. MiRRA, ArabA. Kaitinga-. This large community, living close to the north of Kuttum, regards itself, and is regarded by others, as Tungur by descent on the male side and Zaghawa on the female side. They are

inclined to demur to the appellation of Zaghawa, though not flatly disowning it, and to speak of themselves as a separate tribe. They never call themselves Tungur.

KoBBE. (Including the Kubga.) This section is in the extreme north-west of Darfur and north-east of Wadai. There is a colony of Kubga, with other Kobbe (Nas Firti), near Kebkebia, but their

habitat proper is in a mountainous district north-west of Dar Tama.

The Kobbe are subdivided into Ango, Mirra, Nowra, Wayra, Baybela, Kerayko, Birriarra, Bursu, Sigerla and Code; the Kubga into Bigi, Erla, Hotillia, Derbula and Birgabela^.

Kaliba.

NiKIRI. Galigalgera, or Ganigalgera (under the Kaliba). AwLAD Dikayn and Awlad Doura. Under Akaba. Until the

latter part of the eighteenth century, however, the Akaba were under

the Awlad Dikayn nahds.

Each main division of the Zaghawa now has its own melik,

subject to no single Zaghawi Sultan or overlord. Their habitat

stretches across practically the whole of northernmost Darfur and

part of northern Wadai ^, and in its more southernly districts (in Darfur) is largely peopled by Fur and Tungur.

V MiD6B. Gebel Midob Ues about 400 miles west of Khartoum

or 350 miles west-south-west of Debba, in the north-eastern corner

of Darfur, and mention has already been made of its people as having a

Nubianstrainandspeakingadialectthatresembles that of the Barabra^.

^ The Zaghawa generally add the Bedaydt to the list of their subtribes.

^ The Kaitinga brand is as shown. The "crow's-foot" at the base is common to most Fur and Tungur brands and appears to be borrowed from the royal Kayra section of Fur (q.v. in Para, xx, and cp. Paras, vii and xix).

' The details of subdivisions of Kobb6 and Kubga were supplied to me by Mr E. G. Sarsfield Hall of the Sudan Civil Service, Inspector of Northern Ddrfur.

* See Carbou, ii, 209, 210.

* Part I, Chap. 2, xxxiii and xlu. The account of Mid6b which follows is partly identical with an article I contributed, under the title "Nubian Influences in Darfur," to the first number of Sudan Notes and Records (1918), but certain additions have been made. For a comparative vocabulary of Mid6b, Birked and Bardbra, see later sub Birked.

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