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X And when they reached the Wadi el Mahfur there met him the

sons of his [great-] uncle, that is the sons of el Hag Muhammad the

brother of 'On, and they greeted him and were overjoyed, for they desired his aid against their foes and to secure that he and they should be as one single hand against all others.

XI And they said to him "The lands that contain us will contain you." He replied "What will contain me and my sons will only be the distance that contains me on my horse." They said "That shall be so " ; and he galloped his horse from the landing-place of the village of el Hag Muhammad to the landing-place of Shilluk, now known as

" Taraf Bakarish," and again from this to the landing-place of Kubbat el Sheikh el Nuwabi.

XII Then he set up a stone as boundary between himself and the

lands of the king of the Baza, king 'Akil, the master of Kardafil (sic), and this stone is called ''el Shaykhun" and is still standing in the middle of the road.

Now this road was then the river frontage, and the site [of the stone] was the [summit of the] shelving bank, which was stony and of little value.

XIII So Hasan and his sons became entirely separated from all

intercourse with their cousins, the stock of '(3n ibn Shai'k, the Kanu- DAB and the 'Amrab, and became united in life and in death with the children of their [great-] uncle el Hag Muhammad.

XIV This is the story of Hasan ibn Zayn el Din and what happened

between him and his cousins the '(3nia in the year in which died the king of the Baza, namely the year 900^.

XV And the above is taken [J^*^] from the History of Old

Dongola {'' Donkola el 'Aguz"). But the Nuba and the Baza did not know the [true] date and took their reckoning from the years in which their famous men died.

The Tribes living in the Shdikia Country

XVI The tribes living in the Shaikia country are of various races. The greater part of them are Nuba, and these live in certain definite places, some of them at el Kadir and Massawi Island, and some in the vicinity of Nuri and el Belial and Kenana (as far as the limits of

el Dakait), and others at el Kasingar and its vicinity eastwards and

westwards, and [the] islands. These are the habitations of the Nuba.

XVII Another of the tribes among the Shaikia is the Baza, who live near el Zoma.

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