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that 'Adlan should return to Shendi; and at Shendi he appointed Musa'ad as Mek, and, this done, returned to his brother Sheikh Idris at el Halfaya with the rest of the captive Awlad Nimr. And after he had reached el Halfaya and met his brother they proceeded to Sennar and there executed the prisoners.

CL In 1216^ war broke out between the Mek Nimr and the Mek

Musa'ad, and this war was called "The war of the 'Awalib," and during its course 'Adlan went west and fought with the Mek 'fsawi and defeated him and brought him back captive to Sennar, where he died in prison.

CLI In 1217^ occurred the war of the Batahin and the Shukria, and Sheikh 'Awad el Keri'm Abu Sin, Sheikh of the Shukria Arabs, was killed.

CLII In the same year died el Hag Nasir walad Matassi, a man of piety, and also the feki Misri walad Kandil, a student of the Kuran and a pious man ; and also Sheikh Yusef the son of Sheikh Muham-

mad walad el Terayfi. He too was a pious man, and the feki Ahmad walad el Taib and others composed elegies upon him.

CLIII We will now return to the history of the Sheikh. The his-

torian states that Sheikh Idris followed in the steps of his father Muhammad Abu el Kaylak in justice and beneficence until he died in the month of Gemdd el Akhir 1218^.

CLIV He was succeeded in the Sheikhship by his brother 'Adlan, but the latter neglected his kingdom and exercised no vigilance in its affairs and gave himself up to pleasure. But he only ruled for the

rest of Gemdd and Ragab and Sha'abdn, and on the i6th of Ramaddn he was slain.

CLV And the manner of his death was thus. As soon as he became

distracted from the affairs of state and ceased to give his attention to them, his foes roused themselves, and their ambitions were excited.

The first to make a plot for his downfall was Muhammad walad Ragab walad Muhammad, who conspired with Kamtur and the Mek

Ranfi and some of the Fung and some of Sheikh 'Adlan's own entourage. These dared not yet openly proclaim their revolt, but lay

quiet awaiting an opportunity; and finally God willed the consum-

mation of their hopes, for Muhammad walad Nasir "Abu Rish," who was in great need of corn, moved from the village of el Kubr;

and this man had had a brother named 'Ali, who was bold and reck-

less and used to abuse roundly all that 'Adlan did, and it was said — and God knows the truth — that 'Adlan had poisoned him : so then *'Abu Rish" left el Kubr and joined Muhammad walad Ragab and

1 i8oi a.d. 2 1802 A.D. ^ 1803 A.D.