198 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. d 1. clxxxii.

other peoples; and their country stretches from West Africa [el moghrab] to the neighbourhood of Abyssinia, and part of it is on the Nile of Egypt.

CLXXXIII Sennar was a famous city of Abyssinia, containing

tribes of Zing and Nuba who were subject to Abyssinia. Subse-

quently, when they became powerful, they broke away from their allegiance and appointed kings of their own and defended themselves against Abyssinia and protected their lands.

CLXXXIV The Berber are a nation of people whose tribes are

innumerable, descended from the 'Amalik. It was they of whom the saying is related "All that is abominable consists of seventy portions : of these ninety-nine [per cent. ?] is in the Berber and the

[remaining] one in the human race and the Gin." CLXXXV Most of their tribes are in the west in the mountains of

Sus, etc., and scattered abroad in the neighbouring regions. They include Zenata^ and Howara and Sanhaga and Nabra and Ketama and LuATA and Madyuna and Sana.

CLXXXV I Another nation of them lives between the Abyssinians and the Zing, on the shores of the sea of the Zing and the sea of

el Yemen; and these people^ are blacks and have strange beasts in their country, nor are there to be found there such animals as the

giraffe, the rhinoceros, the hunting leopard, the pard and the ele-

phant. They too it is who cut off men's organs and present them as dowries to their women.

CLXXXVII Their island lies off ^ the coast of Abyan and is connected under the sea with 'Aden from the direction of the point at which

Subayl rises to eastwards of that point: opposite to it lies 'Aden and in front of it is Gebel el Dukhan. This island is Sokotra^, lying off

'Aden and directly opposite to it.

CLXXXVII I The Salamat Arabs in the west are [descended] from

Kuda'a.

CLXXXIX The people of the Sudan are the Nuba and the Abyssin-

ians [el Habsha], as has been stated. CXC The [descendants of] Daylum son of Basil son of Hasba son of Udd son of Tabikha son of el Yas son of Mudr are Arabs.

CXCI GuRHUM are a people in el Yemen descended from Gurhum

son of Kahtan son of 'Amir son of wShalikh son of Arfakhshadh son

of Sam son of Nuh ; and Isma'il the son of Ibrahim, the Friend of

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