178 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. C9. xxiil

sell, because they are free, are seven: viz. Guhayna and Muzayna and Ashga'a and Dasham and Ghafar^ and Kuraysh and el Ansar.

XXIV The tribes that have [no ?] pedigrees and whom it is allow-

able to sell, are seven: viz. the Beg A and the Begagih and Gabra and Haratha and Ghibra and Nays the ancestor of the Sudanese

[el Suddri].

XXV The origin and ancestry of these is non-Arab \^agam'\, of white and black: Ibn el Salah mentions it in the Commentary on

el Bokhari : he says this is transcribed from El Anwar el Nehawia

fi Abdi Khayr el Barm, and he says he found it in the fifth chapter

of the Anwar, which treats of the chosen prophet of God ....

XXVI Now el Sherif Muhammad el Amin el Hindi has mentioned that the tribes of Guhayna here in the Sudan Gezira are seven, and

they are registered in his own handwriting, thus :

M G R M H R R

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C 9 (NOTES)

II For 'AbduUa el 'Araki see D 3, 34. III " . . .and named it. . .": the Arabic is

(See Burton, Pilgrimage, i, p. 377, on this subject.)

For "YS" and "TH" cp. Hughes, pp. 517, 518. "There are 29 Surahs of the Qur'an which begin with certain letters of the alphabet. These letters, the learned say, have some profound meaning, known only

to the Prophet himself. . . ." "YS" is applied to the 36th chapter of the Kuran (see Burton, loc. cit. i, p. 330). Cp. also BA, cxcviii.

IV Cp. C 7, II.

v "Fala'alah Washm" (^3 aJaIj) is probably an error.

"The Great Captain" is i-«j*N)l j^L5. The zumdm (>oL«j) is properly the small string of leather run through a riding camel's nostril and attached to the rein.

VIII In para, xxi "Hammad" is given instead of "Ahmad." X Though Hasan el Ma'arak is spoken of here as "ancestor of the

' Araki yyun" 'AbduUa el 'Araki himself was not descended from him according to para, v !

^ reading J Uii for j lit.