302 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.d3.

187. Ounsa zoalad Ndsir reigned 1 689-1 701 (Bruce). This Muhammad is given the surname of "el Niri" in No. 90 {q.v). In the text of No. 134 mention is made of " Sughayerun and 'Abd el Hadi, the sons of Sheikh Muhammad walad Dolib."

189. "/6« H^S" is qualified by J^jS (i.e. "said to be son of, etc."). "King Dekin of KordofdV is Jlii;.=> jb 0-« O^i >iU^I. See note to No. 207.

For Ghuldmulla see No. 222.

There occur in this biography the words ". . .What my grandfather, Mtisa walad Ria, told me..." (ajj jJj 15*^3-* ^J^«^ **^ i**^**^" ^)>

and it would appear therefore that the author's mother was probably the daughter of this Musa and a Kahlia by race: see No. 85.

190. "His Sheikh'': i.e. Tag el Din el Bahari. El Mundara is a hill about halfway between el Kamlin and the Atbara : the tomb of No. 190 is to be seen there.

191. A very famous holy-man of the Dahmashia section of Bedayria. His present Khalifa resides at Omdurman and is a merchant held in con-

siderable respect. See Jackson, p. 27, but "AH" is there an error for "Muhammad." The fabled reason of his nickname is that he was born with a bracelet of gold on his wrist, but see Vol. I, p. 177.

For "holy-man'' {" Rdgil") see No. 44, note. Bddi ibn Ruhdt reigned 1651 to 1689 (Bruce).

"He ruled. . .": this phrase occurs elsewhere in the Tabakdt in toto. For the Gin see Hughes, pp. 133-138. 193. The town of Wad Medani, capital of the Blue Nile Province, is so named after this man. He was a Busaylabi from Upper Egypt, and so far as one can deduce from the Tabakdt he probably died about 1700 a.d.

El Nuba is a village on the Blue Nile a short distance above Khartoum : it is reputed to have been founded by some Nuba from el Haraza in Kordofan.

"He was buried. . ., etc." is aj Sj^-y-i^! Ail*. ^ 0^>'

194. "Now the Muhammads. . . " is

jk».lj j-<ftPj •Vft.lj 1^1 ^$ ^a»!j^o-jl ^ \^j2t/\ \^j^\ ^J^J>.f,a^\^

By " one father" is meant "fathers of the same name."

195. Cp. Jackson, pp. 26, 27. For Sdlim el Sanhuri see note to AB, iv. He died in 1606 a.d.

196. "ElKoz" is "Koz walad Diab" (cp. No. 239). 198. Cp. No. 191, re Sharau. 200. For Sdlim el Mdidi see also No. 204; and cp. No. 108.

" Mdidi" is now often pronounced, and spelt, "Magdi": see note to No. 60 on this point. A few miles south of el Kamlin is a village called "Wad el Magdi" and it is probable this was the home of No. 200 or of No. 108.

202. Amna is mentioned also in No. 196.

204. " One of his miracles. . ." : for the Arabic see Appendix 41. For " Um Hinayclil" see note to No. 15.