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laries of their languages or dialects have been collected. 
These are the following tribes: the Moewo* and the Marfa, 
the Korunga or, as they are called by the Arabs, Karinga, 
and the Kashemere. It seems probable that there is some 
kind of relation between these tribes and the Masalit. 
I now enumerate the Kondongo, a tribe formerly of con- 
siderable strength, but at present much debilitated by the 
struggle sustained by them against 'Abd el f Aziz, and by a 
famine which befell them in consequence of that struggle. 
They are principally famous on account of the excellency of 
their weaving. I now mention as separate tribes or nation- 
alities the Kabbaga, to the S.E. of Wara, close to the Kubu ; 
the Mubi, on the Bat-ha ; the Marta ; the Dermudi or Daram- 
dutu ; the Bakka, or Welad el Bakhkha, close to Mai am ; the 
Birkit, near the frontiers of Dar Fur, in which country they 
are more numerous ; the Tala ; Kajagse or Kajagase, near the 
S.S.W frontier of Waday Proper ; and not far from them the 
Tynjur, the remainder of that powerful nation which once 
ruled over all these countries ; at present chiefly settled in 
Magara, a place belonging to Dar Zoyud. 
I now mention the Kuka, settled principally along the 
lower course of the Bat-ha, and in Fittri, where, as far as 
regards language, they form one group together with the 
Bulala, separated from the other tribes of Waday as above- 
mentioned, but intimately connected with the inhabitants of 
Bngirmi, with whose language, at least with regard to half 
of the elements of which it is composed, the language of the 
Kuka is identical. 
After the Kuka must be ranked the Dajo, a tribe even at 
present, though their ancient power is gone, very numerous, 
and, as far as regards Waday, settled principally to the S.E. 
of the Kuka, with whom they have some distant affinity. 
Perhaps those elements in the language of the Kuka which 
* The name is written , or 
