TRIBES OF THE TEBU OR TEDA'. 495 
about the well of A'ghadem the Boloduwa, called (by the 
Kanuri) am Wadebe ; along the Burrum, called " fede " by 
the Tebu, the Karda, called generally Kreda, separated into 
several families, the principal of which are the Gelimma, the 
Grason (this I think rather the name of a chief, all the 
names of tribes ending with a vowel), and Bukoshele ; the 
Shindakora, with the chief A'bu. Nakur ; the Sakerda, with 
Bakaikore; the Medema and the Norea, generally called 
Nworma * ; in Ege and Bateli, the Mtisu, with their chief 
Wudda ; in Tongtir, the Nakassa, a section of whom are the 
Un, with the chief Maina ; in Bilma, or Bulma (which pro- 
bably is the right form), and the wadi Kawar, or rather 
" henderi Teda," as it is called by the natives, the tribe of the 
Gesera or Gesedi. 
In Tibesti (a general name which once seems to have 
had a wider range than it has at present) and Bateli: 
• — the Temaghera f, as they are generally called, a very 
interesting tribe, of ancient historical importance (which 
I have already mentioned on a former occasion as probably 
having given the name to the province of Demagherim, and 
which in the time of Edris Alawoma was settled in Ngumti 
[written Ghuguti] in Kanem), with the chief Gurde, who has 
succeeded to Teharke ; the Gonda or Gunda, whose old chief 
Taher Asar died some time ago (the same who wanted to 
write a letter to King George, in Denham's time) in Borde 
(the Berdai of Capt. Lyon), one of the principal localities in 
Tibesti, and in other places; the A^rinda in Dirkemawu, 
another locality of Tibesti, with the chief Keneme. North 
from Tibesti, in the valley Tawo, the Abo, a name which has 
often, by Lyon and even by M. Overweg in the itinerary 
just mentioned, been mistaken for that of a place. 
* Under this form they came also under Burckhardt's notice. 
(Travels in Nubia, 2nd ed. Appendix I. p. 435.) 
| There seems to be some Berber element in the word ; but I 
think it is more apparent than real, for the word is distinctly written 
by Imam A'hmed Tumaghira. 
