212 NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SUDAN iv.di.ccvi

of Abyssinia were forced further westward, and as a result the capital was shifted to Gondar.

Of the provinces mentioned Amhara is well known, "Sawa" is Shoa (or Xoa), "Damut" is Damota (or Great Damot), " Adel el Amrai" is Adel, "Hamasa" is Hamazen, "Badimya" is probably the "Bagemder" of Ludolfus (p. 14), and "Zi'la'a" is probably Zeila on the northern coast of Somaliland.

ccix For the following see MacMichael {Tribes..., Chap, i) and Part I, Chap. 4.

The date 1233 should be 1236. ccxiii Ghulamulla is the ancestor of the Rikabia. Mentions of him are

very frequent: see BA, CLXXix, CLXXXI and D 3, 189 and D 5 {d).

For this Muhammad walad Dolib see D 3, 187.