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II The Arabic for the title is
Ji^i" .^^ ^lJaJL-.3l Sju> ^ JljJ'^JI J>o-> vW-'b '•Ai'i^' *^^^^,^*s^^ 'i^^^'
The words "Nuba" and "Nubian" are used by the author indiscrimin-
ately to denote the people of what is known now, as in past times, as Nubia, as well as the inhabitants of the hills of northern Kordofan. He includes the mountaineers of south Kordofan (Nuba Mountains Province)
in his category of Nubians or Nuba, but differentiates them as "Zing Nuba": see note to para. xx.
III Barkal, or Napata, was the seat of the Nubian kingdom which is known to have risen to power between 600 and 700 B.C. Piankhi reigned about
721 B.C. (see Breasted, pp. 367-8, and Budge, vol. ii, pp. 1-2). For the ruins at Barkal see Crowfoot {Arch. Survey of Nubia, XlXth Mem. p. 31).
Donkola el 'Aguz ("Old Dongola") was the capital of northern Nubia for some 600 years: it took the place of Napata (see Budge, vol. 11, pp. 297,
299. 372).
Of "King Donkol" nothing is known. An older form of "Donkola' was "Domkola" {e.g. see Yakut, Geogr. iJlioi ly-***'' <*'!'3*'' a<;jjl^).
Faras was "certainly one of the leading cities of Lower 'Nubia'" and should probably be identified with the mediaeval Begrash (see Egypt. Expl. Fund Report 1910-11, and Budge, vol. 11, p. 303). I can find no mention
of "King Kaykalan."
IV ''Its capital was. . . " is as follows in the Arabic:
Gebel 'Abd el Hadi is Gebel el Haraza in northern Kordofan. 'Abd el Hadi was the most famous of its chiefs, and was a Dolabi by race, i.e. by origin a Rikabi from Dongola. Pallme met him in 1838 (see Pallme, • pp. 96 and 240, and MacMichael, Tribes..., pp. 93,94). Cp. Cuny(p. 138),
^'Le Djebel Haraza, ou Djebel Abd-el-Kadi" [misprint for Hadi], "du
nom de son chef recemment decede" (1857). Cp. also Riippell, p. 125.
The word a^-eU. here translated "capital" must mean the ancient headquarters, if not the cradle of the race, as distinct from its more obvious
meaning of "capital" in para, xxiii.
The suggestion that el Haraza was once the headquarters of the present Nubian stock is extremely interesting and significant. If one re-read in the light of this passage the well-known quotation given by Quatre- mere anent the expedition of Kalaun against King Any {q.v. in vol. i,