AWADIA  and FADNIA, two small

nomad tribes of pure Arab blood living in the Bayuda desert, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, between the wells of Jakdul and Metemma . They are often incorrectly classed as Ja'alin . They own numbers of horses and cattle, the former of the black Dongola breed . At the battle of Abu Klea (17th of January 1885) they were conspicuous for their courage in riding against the British square . See Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905) .