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mosque he founded at Sennar, and the royal palace. The latter con-

sisted of five stories on the top of one another, and a number of buildings adjoining them for the storage of government equipment, such as arms and the like. He also built two halls [dmdnayn] where he might sit in council, one of them outside the palace and the other inside its enclosure, and round the whole he built a vast

wall and made therein nine gates, and to each of the great men of his kingdom he appointed a special gate for entry or exit thereby.

XXXVII Likewise he made a special hall for the great men of the kingdom, wherein they might sit to consider their business; and if

one of them [lit. "this chief"] wished to enter the hall [dizvdn] of the king he must enter alone, unaccompanied by any of his people. But the ninth gate was reserved for the king himself, and no man might enter with him or go out by it, save only the king and Walad

'Agib the king of Kerri.

XXXVIII All these gates opened from the same frontage of the wall, which formed a straight line, and in front of them was a roofed area supported by two pillars, and under it a high bench [mustabd]

called "Dakka man Nadak" ("The bench of him that hath called upon thee"). XXXIX These buildings survived until the time of the late Effendina

Isma'il Pasha the son of Effendina el Hag Muhammad 'Ali Pasha; but in his days the palace fell and all traces of it disappeared. All glory be to Him whose kingdom continueth for ever!

XL King Badi continued at Sennar like his predecessors, applying himself to the work of his kingdom and to doing good until he died

in 1088^ after a reign of thirty-six years.

XLI After him his brother's son Ounsa walad Nasir came to the throne, and in 1095^, during his reign, there occurred a great famine,

so that men ate dogs ; and they called this year " Um Lahm " (" Mother of Meat"), and many folk died, and certain districts were devastated owing to the famine and small-pox.

And King Ounsa remained at Sennar until his death in 11 00^ after a reign of twelve years.

XLII He was succeeded by his son the Mek Badi el Ahmar ("The Red"), and he was the first Fung king against whom a section of his

people revolted; for el Amin Aradib walad 'Agib rebelled with about a thousand men of the Fung and others, and appointed over them as Mek one named Awkal. And they designed to depose the Mek Badi el Ahmar and made ready for war, but he, though having only about forty-five horsemen, met them and routed them and drove them

1 1677 A.D. - 1684 A.D. ^ 1688-9 A.D.