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138 NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SUDAN iv. aii.lix.

LIX Cp. A 2, XXII. LX Cp. A 2, XXXVI. LXi cp. A 2, XXXVII ; BA, cxix, and D 6, xliii.

Lxii "I" is evidently el Samarkandi: see note to BA, clxxvi. Cp. D 6, LI.

The words "and similarly the Delaykab also" and "and some of them. . . " are undoubtedly a gloss by a Bathani. The Batahin have along- standing feud with the Delaykab as to the ownership of lands near Abu Delayk, and so vent their spite by casting aspersions on the antecedents of the Delaykab.

In D I, XXVI similar treatment is accorded to the HuMR. For the Hadarba or Had/Ireb see Part III, Chap. 13 (b), and cp. note to BA, clxxvi.

LXiii Cp. BA, CLXXV and A 2, xl and D 6, lii. Lxrv Cp. A 2, xxviii and D 6, iv. LXV Cp. para, xxix et seq.

"Sub-tribes" here is JjUbu>. "Kurud" (u*'^^) rfiay be an error for " 'Awad" {^^). The Arabic translated " When the treaty. . . " is Ja». a<,A£3 Oj*.Ae UJ . This division of the Ga'alii'n is referred to and explained in Part III, Chap. I (k).

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