66 THE NON-ARAB RACES OF DARFUR I. 4. VI.

WAmato

Kamdirto SiNFANTO DiBAYRTO

BiSHINANTO WiDARTO

'Abdinto DUKURTO FOBATO KuAto AminkAto Dadamarto TOFITO UmbAto KoliAt

WAmirto AIasandiAt Kaylinga ArmadiAt WadkeniAt KamarshowAt Atabirto Kamalkua Musaba'At^ KUDIL UmbAto KirAto UmzAto Handilto Karaka

MlNA BASINGA^ Warl Kamlinga WizAto

Kashrito KiBRANTO Bobarto MismArto WiMARTO Buranto OdAto Kadanto HobAto Madinkirto^

WimAto

Kadarinto Selbalto BurmAto MirArto Mangilto

SowAranto WirAto

Sandilto SambangAto'*

LabAbis'^ KinAto

UmzirArto Shokanto

The dialect spoken by the Berti bears marked resemblances to

that of the ZaghAwa^.

VII TUNGUR. The TuNGUR were reported to Earth'' as having come originally from Dongola "where they had separated from the

Batalesa, the well-known Egyptian tribe originally settled in Benese." Now "Batalesa" is simply a regular plural formed from "Batlus,"

the Arabic form of Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus)^, and the legend suggests

that the Tungur were an ancient pre-Arab tribe from Nubia. From

certain customs that survive among them^ one would infer that they were Christians at the date of their migration to the west. Carbou

states^° "La tradition des Toundjour parle aussi d'un sejour de leur

tribu sur les bords du bahr Nil"; and one notes in confirmation

that their name survives in that of the "Tungur" Rapid seventy-two

miles south of Wadi Haifa. On reaching Darfur, probably in the

fifteenth or sixteenth century^^, they took up their abode in the

northern or central districts. They have been spoken of by travellers

as dispossessing the Dagu in Darfur, but there is no doubt that there

^ Presumably Fur by origin.

^ The headman's own section. Cp. p. 95.

^ Cp. "Madargarkei" among the Birked?

* Cp. " Sumbinangd " and " Sambelang(^" among the Dagu.

* Cp. other Lababfs, claiming to be Kababish by origin, among the Fur.

* For examples see Appendix i to this chapter.

' Q.v. Vol. Ill, Ch. LI, p. 430.

* See, e.g., Abu el Fidd, Hist. Ant. p. 104, i^JUxJl ^UJI ^jojui^ j.wx« »£U.^,

I see that Dr Brown, editing Leo, calls (p. 645) the "Batalises" one of the Zeneta (Berber) tribes.

" See Appendix 5 to this chapter. '" I, 74. " It may well have been earlier than the sixteenth century, but the Tungur are not mentioned by Leo at the beginning of the sixteenth century: cp. Barth, ibid.

pp. 429, 430. Nachtigal thought they entered Darfur in the fifteenth century

(see Carbou, i, 74).