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clear what book is meant : the words are no doubt a gloss as they do not occur in MS. No. i.

IV "On the days..." is ii**JaJt ^^j — literally "the day of the how- dah," i.e. on the day when the women ride in state in their howdahs on the camels from the old encampment to the new. The usual nomad custom is so.

VI No. I adds that Hamtur and Hadlul were twins, and calls Salih

"elHagSalih."

vii-viii No. I says here " 'Abd el Khalik son of Daud el JHashi begot the Shawarab Nas Awlad Mahr as distinct from the Shawarab " {i.e. the

rest of the Shawarab.-') "and begot" [i.e. was ancestor of (jJ^)] "Nebat ibn Daud el Gemal"; and later "Nebat ibn Daud el Gemal begot Shawar, ancestor of the Shawarab, and Salih, ancestor of the Sawalha and the

Nebatia."

In No. I there follows this paragraph: "Concerning the Bualda, the descendants of Bulad Gerri, there is a difference of opinion. Some say they are descended from Bulad son of Musallam, and others that they are Ga'al. God knows the truth about them."

X Um Merahi is in Gayli district, north of Khartoum. XI Not in No. i.

XII No. I adds "And the seed of the sons of Yasir are the Bambunab and the Washkab, and the mother of these was one of the Nuba of

el Haraza Um Ked, who are descendants of 'Abd el Hadi walad Muham-

mad walad Dolib, who was descended from el Sheikh Rikab, who was of

the stock of el Imam el Zila'i."

El Haraza is in Northern Kordofan, and 'Abd el Hadi was the father of Nabray (No. 211 in D 3) and probably (see D 3) died about 1750-1800. See MacMichael {Tribes of N. and C. Kordofan, Chap. vi). Rikab is No. 222 in D 3. Cp. note xxxiv and see Chap. 7 in Part III for the

Rikab i'a.

XIII No. I specifies that the five full-brothers were sons of one Merowia el Hurra, and Ibrahim of a concubine named Zaynab.

XV No. I says 'Abd el Sadik and Nigm were twins and inserts Ga'afir (omitted by a slip here in No. 2).

XVI No . I adds " the Kurash ab , " and gives ' ' Kenanab " for " Kin aynab , ' ' and says the Rihaymab were the children of Rihayma, son of el 'Awayd son of Hamtur. The descendants of Hamtur are always spoken of as "Hamatiria" to-day.

In a later paragraph No. i says "The eldest sons of Hamtur were Barkash and Karshan and Thammar and 'Awad el Kerim." These are not mentioned by No. 2; but cp. note xix.

XVII No. I says "The descendants of Hadlul, according to what we have copied from the writings of el feki Sherifi ibn el feki Mekki, and according

to what has been copied from el feki 'Abdulla ibn el feki el Amin with absolute exactitude, are the Shiumab, the Khalafullab, the Hasanab and

the Mekkiab The sons of Hadlul were Muhammad and Hasan and 'Ali and KhalafuUa.