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51. " His father . . .the people there." The Arabic is given in Appendix 6. The dialogue is more than typically difficult.

El Tergami, i.e. one of the Teragma. It will be seen from the Ga'ali Trees that Tergam was brother of that Kerdam from whom the great majority of the tribe claim descent.

" DoTigola" is here written "Donkola" (dJJuy) but the author often elsewhere calls it "Donkola" (a)JL.^), e.g. in Appendix 9.

52. El 'akdid, which embrace all matters of faith, are in contradis-

tinction to 'ilm el fekilt, which relates only to matters of practice. See Hughes, pp. 106 and 286, and also note to para, viii, supra.

''And the cause. . . ." For the Arabic see Appendix 7. For the use of la^-ij for ^j^jj^^j cp. note to No. 74 (end). By Ddr Salih is meant Wadai.

53. Ya'akilb was Sultan of Wadai from 1681 to 1707. He engaged in war with Darfur and was defeated by the Sultan Ahmad Bukr at Kebkebia (see Schurtz, pp. 542 and 545).

54. " 'Abudi" is written ^^^*c: see note to para, vii, supra. 55. " Sdridia " : i.e. a woman of the Sowarda. "El 'Agami" is written ^^a»jij I : cp. note to No. 54. The AwLAD EL 'Agami live at Berber, and there are a few of them on Bundi Island. 'Agami is of course the brother of Hasan wad Hasuna (No. 132).

56. The date of sannat el gidri is not stated.

58. For Wall see note to para, x, supra. For "Kandil el Saridi," see note to No. 222.

For the ''famous case" referred to vide sub No. 73. Mismdr el Halashi was one of the 'Abdullah Mdngilak family of Kerri. For lists of these 'Abdullah see Budge, 11, p. 204, and Cailliaud, iii, p. 96, and Jackson, p. 105, and Part III, Chap. 2 {a) above; and see note to para, vi, supra. The names here given as those of sheikhs of Kerri will not square with the above lists, but the explanation is probably that those

sheikhs who were deposed after only a few months' reign are not mentioned in the lists quoted by Cailliaud, etc. The Arabic of this final passage is given in Appendix 8 and it will be seen that owing to the indiscriminate use of personal pronouns it might be translated in several different ways: it is clear, however, that the author is not giving a consecutive list of sheikhs but only mentioning examples of such as were deposed after very short terms of power.

For 'All ibn 'Othmdn see No. 236; and for Mismar No. 66. " Walad 'Agib" and "Sheikh 'Abdulla" are the same person. 60. For the Arabic of the whole of this biography see Appendix 9.

The village of Wad 'Ishayb lies about four miles below el Kamlin on the east bank of the Blue Nile, and its people are called 'Ishaybab: they are a section of Rikabi'a and the descendants of this No. 60.

For el Banufari see No. 17.

'Agib the Great is the Mdngilak of para. vi. " The Gezira" is in the Arabic here "el Hiioi." The full name of the Gezira, i.e. the land enclosed between the White and the Blue Niles, was