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This appointment he granted to them for the period of one year; and on their arrival at Derr they appointed employees and assistants for their rule, and started from Derr for Wadi Haifa to collect the

taxes. But when they reached the neighbourhood of Ferayk they fell to disputing as to which of them was chief, and the two of them remained there, each enrolling the names of his fellow tribesmen. Then the two tribes met there, and a great fight took place, and the army of the Mandulab was defeated.

XV After this an alliance was formed between the Mandulab and

the AsHRAF, i.e. the Dababia, and the Azri'han, against the Daudab, and there was war between them for a long space, and all the chief-

tains and horsemen of both parties were slain. . . ." XVI The author then gives the names of the Kdshifs who were the heads of the four tribes mentioned, and the names of certain of their descendants, and the places where the latter severally reside at present.

XVII The next chapter deals very briefly indeed with the career of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and his successors up to 1882 a.d. Nothing of interest is recorded.

XVIII This chapter mentions by name those whom the author considers to be the most learned or noteworthy personages of the present generation in Nubia. The list contains thirty-one names, chiefly of Kadis, Sheikhs

and Dervish amirs.

XIX Following the above is the heading ^'Learned Men" but our author states there is not room to include a list of these, but " I pray Almighty God," says he, " that our Government may see fit to educate

our sons, for the children of to-day are the men of the future." XX The author now passes to the geography of Nubia. Its boundaries on the Nile are, he states, from the north of Aswan to Dabat el Dolib on the

northern frontier of the ShAi'kia country, *' not counting the hills of the Nuba lying between Dongola and Kordofan, and the hills of the

Zing Nuba in southern Kordofan."

XXI He next proceeds to mention all the places of interest in Nubia, dividing the country for this purpose into a series of districts and taking them one by one from north to south.

The first ten districts are on the river : the tenth reaches on the south to

"Dabat el Dolib, near Old Dongola."

The eleventh district comprises "the hills of the Nuba between Dongola and Kordofan."

The twelfth comprises "the hills of the Zing Nuba in southern Kordofan." The thirteenth is Gebel Barkal. XXII These thirteen districts are then subdivided into smaller areas,

generally villages, and a few remarks are given concerning natural features or any point of interest.