IV. D6.LXII. OF THE SUDAN 353

is no historical Sultan named Abu Ya'akub. In para. XLii "el Takrur" is apparent!}? meant to represent any of the western states of the Sudan, and it the same is the case here the reference may conceivably be to the incident

of 'Abd el Kerim, the first Muhammadan ruler of Wadai, the grandfather of the Sultan Ya'akub and the conqueror of the Tungur. He reigned

1635-55 ^^^ was of a Ga'ali stock from near Shendi (see vol. i, pp. 68 and 198).

The Arabic translated ''you zvill have a correct idea of my dominion'*

is jc^Xo i»\j.^ j^Xc sZJii^ jk5 jXjI ^JLcI — the word sirdt being literally " the

[right] way" (see Hughes, p. 595). LV The Arabic of this passage is as follows :

^J^^I IjkA Osil5 y ijtf&j jjUsJ.-»3l *.«-«; <dJ 013 (J 1=3 U^i t^Lii Aiij

Lix "It has had. . .pagan'' is

j^L) jiSii^ Jc; Jk4*. ^.fl^yii^o kJ^ >J*^:; jW«^- >^^^ ^v*^ 0^^-5 '•^s*^ ^^JLo ly3^

LX Cp. A 2, XXXIV ; D 4, vi, etc.

LXI By "the mosque of 'Amr" is perhaps meant the mosque super-

imposed at Old Dongola upon the ruins of an ancient Christian church

(see Budge, 11, p. 372 and Anglo-Eg. Sudan, i, p. 31). At Khandak there is an old brick fort in the middle of the town, which may be alluded to here (see Gleichen, p. 29).

LXii The Arabic of this paragraph is

•t dJJt ^J\ ^*aaJI lyjDU ^ ^b^*~3b [sic) ^j3e3^l >-ij3d\ w>l.»JI j-ylJt

iVYY ilo-B.. j^i ojj^j-si^ (J>« xlUii^ jiSj t^ijjA* [sic) aaaJI ^

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