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243. For the ''fight" mentioned cp. No. 236. ''The year after small-pox year": cp. No. 237: the Arabic is ijS^j

244. £■/ ^oy^iY: cp. No. 251. 246. The brother of No. 77.

248. "El Furayn": the text here gives ^j^t, but in No. 206 we have o^j3.flM .

250. The father of No. 76. He is said to be buried near Gebel Arang in Mefaza district.

.252. The apphcation of a tribal name, "el Fezari," as a nickname to a member of the Mahass tribe, which is totally distinct from the Fezara,

is analogous to the use of "el Guhani" in the case of Abdulla el Guhani (see BA, lviii).

254. Cp. No. 156. This Ya'akub is the eponymous ancestor of the Ya'akubab (see Jackson, Yacubabi Tribe).

255 . A section of the Mashaikha are called Mugelliab after this man's father. Mugelli is said to have died in Egypt in Zernikh Island and to have been a descendant of the Khalifa Abu Bukr. Cp. No. 238, and see A 2, xxxvii and ABC, liv.

"And the king. . .": for the Arabic see Appendix 50.

It is a not uncommon expression to say that a courtyard, e.g., is "big enough for a horse to gallop in," and the phrase "as much land as his horse could encompass" probably means, as it has been explained by natives, "as much land as a horse could gallop round."

The word "mil" means properly a distance as far as one can see under normal circumstances. Burton {Pilgrimage..., ii, 63) defines a "mil" as

1000 paces. 256. He died in 1802 (see D 7, clii). 259. Bddi walad Rabat reigned from 165 1 to 1689 (Bruce). For Dekin see note to No. 207.