IV. D 3. OF THE SUDAN 279
(1655-6 A.D.). As Khogali, the son of No. 22, is said (see No. 154) to have died in 1742 A.D., there is no discrepancy in the dates.
At the end of biography No. 22 the text contains a reference to some
book "written at the end of Dhu el Higga of the year 1030 by 'Ah ibn Muhammad, who was known as 'Zayn,' son of 'Abd el Rahman el Ag-huri el Maliki " ; and here our author seems to be a little at fault, not in the date, but in the name : 'Ali was son of Muhammad ibn Zayn el Din ibn 'Abd el Rahman el Ag-huri (see note to BA, ccxii). The book was no doubt one of the commentaries 'Ali is known to have written on Khalil.
23. Dekin "Sid el 'Ada" (cp. CaiUiaud, 11, p. 255, "Sahib el 'Ada") was the fifth Fung king. Bruce gives his date as 1 570-1 587. Sheikh 'Agib is the same as he mentioned in para. vi. The appointments mentioned were judgeships as will be seen from No. 93, where the names of all four will
be found. No. 23 is said to have been an 'Araki by race, but his connection, if any, with those in Tree 9 is not known. "Walad Gabir" is not No. 17 ('Abd el Rahman) but Ibrahim el Bulad, as we know from No. 60 and AB, xcix. The famous 40 are mentioned frequently, e.g. sub Nos. 156, 254,
60, etc. It may be noted that Ibrahim's contemporary, Tag el Din el Bahari {q.v. No. 67), is also said to have had 40 pupils: for this number 40, cp. Nos. 17 and 90.
25. In his biography the date of his birth is given as 1121 A.H.; but in that of his father (No. 226) as 1 122. He had a son, Hasan, who, as appears from D 7, cxc, was the possessor of a library of books.
26. For this casting out of evil spirits by means of the alphabet, cp.
No. 61. The Arabic from "taught him. . ." is as follows:
C^' C C ^
His kubba is shown on the map very close to Soba.
27. 1007 in the text must be a slip for 1070 in order to agree with the dates of the other persons mentioned here.
" And there came to him. . . " For the Arabic see Appendix 4. 'Adldn is 'Adlan I of Sennar (1610-1615, Bruce).
" Fi-ve times " is literally "five knots," i.e. each time he made the promise he tied a knot (sc. in a piece of fibre or such-like) to signify that he was binding himself to the performance.
Muays is about four miles from Shendi.
"And his tomb. . ." is jls^^ SuJCw <iLJLc jljj j-AlJa oj^s^. There is a reference in the text to" Ga'al and its kings "(l^^Lo^ J***-)- This use of Ga'al for Ga'aliyyun (the later form) is common in nisbas. Cp. AB, passim, and No. 154.
That No. 27 was a man of wealth is evidenced by a remark in the text that he killed 60 sheep in honour of an important visitor.
An anecdote is also related of how he restored to health a broken- down donkey.
Meshra el Ahmar is near Shendi. 28. Um Dom is an Island between Khartoum and Soba on the Blue Nile.