414 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.dt.lxxii.
Sennar and is still visited. In times of distress people call upon him saying
*Ya 'Adlan, Wali and Sultan.' He has performed many miracles, and has a marv^ellous power of curing club-footedness {el nabt). If one has a
club-foot and visits him on seven Saturdays, by God's leave one will be healed of it."
'' Khashm el Bahr" was the name given to the district bordering on either side of the river from Sennar southwards. Muhammad 'Abd
el Magid writes to me again on this subject: "It was the custom of the kings to grant to the man they put in charge of these villages the rank of
' Sheikh of Khashm el Bahr,' and to the man they put in charge of the cultivable lands the rank of ' Sheikh of the lands of the villages of Khashm
el Bahr.' The inland villages, which water from wells, were called ' the rain- land villages ' {hilldl el kuir) and also had two Sheikhs, one for the villages and one for the lands : the former was called ' Sheikh of the rainland vil-
lages,' and the latter ' Sheikh of the lands of the rainland villages.'" Lxxiii Of Isma'il Cailliaud (ii, 256) notes "mort du cote de Saouakin." LXXV Abu 'All's full name was Abu 'Ali wad Muhammad wad 'Adlan wad Nail, Nail being the ancestor of the Awlad Nail section.
Lxxvii Muhammad el Amin (walad Mismar) was Sheikh of Kerri, an
'Abdullabi. He had apparently succeeded the Sheikh 'Agib of para, lxxvl Badi his brother seems to have succeeded him, but when Badi died, or was deposed, he again became Sheikh and did not die till 1790 (see para. CXIl).
The reading ''Ahmad walad 'AH" for "Muhammad" is correct and occurs in other MSS.: cp. paras. Lxxix, cci and cciii and note to cci.
Jackson gives (p. 61) "Mohammed wad Ali." Lxxxi El Amin walad 'Agib is the Muhammad el Amin of para. LXXix, etc. (cp. note to para. l). "Wad 'Agib" was practically the hereditary title of the 'Abdullab.
Lxxxiv "His uncle" is Abu el Kaylak. Jackson (p. 63) is in error in making el Amin give Badi the coup de grace. Such MSS. as I have seen all agree with the text as translated.
Lxxxvi Ragab was son of Abu el Kaylak. Lxxxviii Jackson (p. 63) makes Nasir the victor. No MSS. that I have seen do so.
xc Cp. D 3, IV (note) and Jackson (p. 63).
xci In para, civ it is Ibrahim's brother 'Ali who is called "Walad Salatin."
xcii The Awlad Nimr are the Ga'ali Meks of Shendi.
xciii For '\fdsher" cp. el Tunisi (Voy. au Ouaddy, p. 98): "Le mot de Ouarah, chez les Ouadayens, est analogue au mot de Facher chez les
Foriens. . .Au Darfour, la denomination de Facher s'applique egalement a la grande place qui est devant la demeure du sultan. . .et a cette demeure elle-meme. Ou donne encore ce nom, hors de Tendelty, a la ville, ou au bourg, ou au village ou le sultan s'etablit. Mais au Ouaday, le nom de I^acher ne s'applique qu'a la grande place qui est devant \e palais. . .."
xcv Sa'ad ibn el Mek Idris was the Ga'ali Mek of Shendi. According to Cailliaud's list (in, 106) he ruled for 40 years.