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and ended it a pagan. West of it is a great mountain called Gebe! el Ruus, where there are marvels that it would take too long to relate.

LX DoNGOLA is a great place and its story is well known. It was

conquered by 'Amr ibn el 'Asi.

LXI The people of Berber were converted by the people of Dongola ; and there are there {i.e. in Dongola) great cities and islands encom-

passed by walls, and a great mosque built by 'Amr ibn el 'Asi and known as "the mosque of 'Amr," and the entrenchment {khandak) made by Ibn 'Ukba el Gabiri el Ansari in the time of Ayyub.

LXII Here ends the history of the Arabs who settled in the Sudan.

This history is the property of the fakir Ahmad ibn el feki

Ma'aruf, and I finished writing it in Gemdd 1277^

D 6 (NOTES)

III Cp. A II, II and in.

" The pretended Sheriff is o^^^-i^U V The Arabic begins ... ju-Jt ^Ua 0-*>ov*^ J^-'S! ^ Ji' but this is

clearly corrupt, and should, I think, read ... ju~.JI Jt ^^^^ j-^J^ U J^t.

Compare BA, CLXXiv for these Fadni'a. "Fawadin" would be the normal Arabic plural formed from Fadin, the name of their ancestor.

The Arabic translated "He worried him. . .tracks" is

For el Abwab see D 3, 14 (note).

IX " That country" (^^S'n)! ^3) is presumably the [northern] Sudan. X Cp. A II, VII. Contrast para. XXXIX later.

XI This version of the origin of "Ga'al" is not, it is almost needless to say, in vogue among the Ga'aliin themselves, though not uncommon in

Dongola. Cp. A 3, vii, and see Robertson Smith, p. 196.

xii Cp. A II, XLViii. Balula is the name of a village and ferry situated

on a bend of the Blue Nile a mile or two below el Kamli'n.

XIII Cp. A II, Liv. XV Cp. A II, L. xxiii Cp. A II, LI. XXV Cp. A II, LII. XXVI Cp. A II, LIII. XXVIII Cp. A II, LVI.

XXX i.e. the " Gall a." XXXIII Cp. A II, LVII. XXXV Cp. A II, LVIII. XXXVII Cp. BA, cxxvi for Mukhallad.

XXXVIII "YerAbi'a" is a plural from Yerbu'a, which name occurs later in para. xlv.

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