IV.D7.LXXII. OF THE SUDAN 413
The name "Abu el Kaylak" is alleged (by feki Muhammad 'Abd el Magid of the 'Omarab, for whom see D 3, 1 13 note) to be more correctly "Abu Lakaylak." He explains '' Lakayluk" as a diminutive of '' lak" meanmg 100,000, and says the nickname was given because Sheikh Muhammad commanded 100,000 men. This, however, is not very con- vincing.
LVii Abd el Latif el Khatib's biography is No. 9 in D 3.
The text is corrupt here, reading thus :
^ L5J^^i
A-LlJ^ j^yi^l ^LaJI «^JaJJI j^ ^_- -l-.r^ )\
The MS. of Muhammad 'Abd el Magid omits the middle line.
"I'he Fung nobility" is ^^^1 ^^ iJ^jJI el^-^s. Cp. paras, lxi and LXII. ^
LVIII Cp. MacMichael (Tribes ..., pp . 9-1 1), and Jackson (p. 50) who adds
el Ami'n Mismar (for whom see para, l) among the commanders. The Fung army was probably composed largely of Abdullab from Kerri if we
may judge from the names " AbduUa walad Agi'b," " Shammam walad 'Agib," "el Amin Mismar" and " Agayl." Khami's the Fur was probably assisting the Fung in Kordofan during the war : see the first passage from Bruce quoted in the note to Li.
LXI ''Fung nobles" here is ?j~iA)t SJ^^ jjI^' : cp. paras, lvii and LXii.
LXII " Great men of the Fung, that is slaves of the king," is ~^»i\ dj-^ ,iU^l jLA*ft ^&«: cp. paras, lvii and lxi. ^
It would appear that slaves had attained in Sennar to a position analo-
gous to that of the Mamluks in Egypt. lxiv Cailliaud says (11, 256) that Badi died at Suakin.
Lxvii Cailliaud speaks of Nasir (11, 256) as "tue a el-Bouqra par Bady Oualed Regeb."
Lxviii " FuAri" may be a plural formed from Fur: cp. "Anwab" in para. XLix. Jackson (p. 59) says: "Ahmed wad Mahmud, Sheikh of the Furs." Muhammad Abd el Magid's MS., however, gives "Kawaria."
"Prayer-mat" is IJ^^. Jackson (p. 59) translates "pen." Lxix It was in Isma'il's reign that Bruce visited Sennar. In the text Bruce speaks of him as "white in colour as an Arab," with short black hair; but in the MS. notes (Vol. vi, p. 417) he speaks of him ("the mek") as having "woolly hair and black flat features."
L^xxi The reading '89 instead of '83 is adopted from another MS. Lxxii The reading "1198" as the date of Abu el Kaylak's death is obviously an error, as his successor died in 1194A.H. (see para. Lxxxvi). Two other MSS. to which I had access, and which agree with that here translated as regards other dates, give 11 90.
As regards the relationship between Abu el Kaylak and 'Adlan see note to para. Li. Cp. also para. cc.
Feki Muhammad Abd el Magid writes to me of 'Adlan walad Subahi : "He was one of the KamAti'r, a learned and pious man. His tomb is at