ETHNOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF WA'da'y. 545 
language — for the Waday people never employ the term 
Shuwa or Shiwa, used in Bagirmi and Bornu — it consists of 
the following tribes, who have been settled in Waday for 
about 500 years. First (the most powerful and richest of 
them all, as well in camels as in small cattle), the Mahamid, 
settled in the wadiyan to the north of Wara, principally in 
Wadi 'Oradha, two days' march from that place, but leading 
a nomadic life like all the others ; and near to them the 
Bern Helba, who are said to have been politically united with 
the Tynjur; the Shiggegat, partly associated with the Ma- 
hamid, partly settled near Jeji ; the Sebbedi ; the Sef e' dm ; 
and the Beni Hassan. The latter, whom we have met already 
in Bornu and Kanem, where they are spread in considerable 
numbers — also in Waday, are rather miserably off, a great 
many of them roving about Eastern Sudan, in order to gain 
something by their labour, while the rest wander, in the rainy 
season, to a place called E'tang, situated to the N.E. of 
Wara, between the Tama and Zoghhawa. 
Yfhile all these tribes roam about to the north of Wara, I 
now class together those settled, at least part of the year, in 
the valley of the Bat-ha. These are the Missiriye, the third 
tribe amongst the Waday Arabs, in respect to numbers, and 
divided into two sections, viz. the Missiriye Zoruk, or the 
black (dark) ones, and the Missiriye Homr, or the red 
ones — Domboli is the chief place of residence of the Mis- 
siriye ; then the Khozam, the next in point of numbers ; 
the Zoyud, the Jaatena, the Zabbade, and the 'Abidiye; to 
whom may be added the Nuw'aibe, who keep more to the 
north of the Bat-ha. Next in order may be named the 
Sabalat, a rather indigent tribe, who breed cattle for the 
king, and supply his household with milk. South of the 
Sungori are the settlements of the Korobat, whose chief 
place is Tenjing, east of Tynjung, which is two days from 
Shenini. On the rich pasture-grounds, fed by a shallow water 
called the bahr e' Tini, four days S.E. from Birket Fatima, 
there are the wandering tribes of the Kolomat and the Terjem ; 
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