328 NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SUDAN iv.d4.xxil

Under "Korosko," the alphabet of the local rotdtia, spoken from Korosko to Dar Mahass, is given : it is stated to be a mixture of Arabic, Turkish and Nuba, and is as follows :

I' t ^^ XX y^ c> o f>\- Ro"''"'-

C C t* [ . A Arabic.

Arabic.

Rotdna.

XXIII The eleventh district is not subdivided, but the author says of it

"The Nuba hills lying betw^een Dongola and Kordofan are many in number, and in them are tribes innumerable. The best known of

them is Gebel 'Abd el Hadi, the capital (io-oU) of the hills of the Nuba: its inliabitants are Nubians (^^*j^)." They cultivate, says the author, by raincrop, have considerable flocks and herds, and are iron-

workers, and some of their women make pottery. XXIV Of the twelfth district (the hills of southern Kordofan) little is said. Gebels Tekali, el Daier, and Marra (which, by the way, is in Darfur) are mentioned, as also the fact that each gebel speaks a different language.

XXV The work was completed on the 4th of Ramadan 1330 A.H.

(191 1 A.D.),