304 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.ds.
Kandil el 'Oni is possibly the " Kandil el Saridi " of No. 58. 'On was a descendant of 'Amir ibn Dhubian, one of whose brothers was Sarid (an-
cestor of the Sowarda) and another was Shatir the ancestor of Rikab and Rubat (see BA). If these two Kandils are one man it may be noted that the
Barri family (No. 58, etc.) were related on their mother's side with the RikAbia of Dongola.
" The four Sheikhs" are No. 17 and his three brothers. "Nds" means, and is often translated, "the people of. . .," i.e. (here) "the descendants of."
"El Ferid" denotes literally an only son. 226. "He was the third. . ." apparently Tag el Din (No. 67) is not counted. The other two were Bedowi wad Abu Delayk and Idris Arbab (see No. 74 and note).
It is mentioned incidentally in this biography that Salih's paternal uncles were named Salih Abu Naib and el Zayn respectively; and from No. 27 (q.v.) we know there were also two others, Bedowi and Hegazi .
The invasion of Shendi alluded to was in 1706 a.d. (see No. 74).
"/ saw Sheikh 'Abd el Kddir . . . ," sc. " el Gilani, in a vision." "Sheikh Sdlih related. . .": for the Arabic see Appendix 46. 228. For el Saydl see No. 251. It is in the Gezira. "A Khdlidi" i.e. one of the Khowalda.
230. "El Zaghrdt" means one who makes the " zagharit," i.e. the shrill cry of "loo-loo-loo" generally used by women. It is said that Selman when alone in the wilds would make this noise and the wild gazelle
and ariel would come to him to be milked. He was a Ga'ali, and was buried at Wad Sak (3rta near Rufa'a. A number of his descendants live at Abu
'Ushara and el Sellama, on the Blue Nile, south of el Kamlin.
The "zagharit" is not purely African. Burton speaks of it at Mekka. (See Pilgrimage..., 11, 159.)
233. He is elsewhere called Muhammad Serhan el 'tJdi. 234. Gerf (or Gerayf) Kunir is on the east bank of the Blue Nile, just outside Khartoum.
235. "He became. . .": for the Arabic see Appendix 47. 236. Mdlik was one of the Awlad Um Gadayn and a half-brother of Sheikh el A'sir.
"And miracles. . .": for the Arabic see Appendix 48.
'Othmdn walad Hammad was the liberator of the Shaikia from the yoke of the Fung. A traditional account of this incident is in NichoUs
{"The Shaikiya"), pp. 10-14, from which it would appear that the Shaikia about 1690 (I should say a few years earlier) quarrelled with the
'AbduUabi viceroy, defeated him by a ruse, and obtained their indepen- dence.
Poncet was at Korti in 1699 and says (p. 15): "Whereas the People who are beyond Korti upon the River Nile are in Rebellion against the
King of Sennar, and that they Pillage the Caravans . . . , they are forced to keep at a Distance from the Banks of the River and. . .to enter into the
Great Desert of Bihouda . . . " : the reference is certainly to the SnAiKiA,