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CLV Muhammad walad Ragab walad Muhammad [sc. Abu el Kaylak] was 'Adlan's nephew.

" Kamtur" is Muhammad Kamtur (see para, cciv) of Khashm el Bahr (q.v. note to para. Li).

Badi VI had been deposed by Idn's walad Muhammad (see para. CLXi) and Ranfi set up in his place.

Muhammad walad Nasir [sc. walad Abu el Kaylak] "Abu Rfsh" was 'Adlan's nephew.

CLVII The quotation runs ^Jw ^yj^JLSj Iju.^j*. ^^^-r,^." .

CLXI So, too, CailUaud (ii, 257): " Ranfa regna 5 ans. Fut tue a Sennar par Mohammed Regeb. Le trone fut vacant pendant un an et demi,

ensuite revint a Bady, fils de Tabl."

CLXii 'Ali Bakadi is the feki whose biography is numbered 68 in D 3, CLXiv The Gedid referred to is the village on the Blue Nile a little above Khartoum.

CLXV The text gives . . . IjjjUs » ? » r iw Jjl^t ^1 aJL.^9 ^J|

Another MS. gives . . ._5jjU kv» Aiw JSt^l ^i l^ ^ISl^ '^1L.^ ^^l

CLXVi For ''Hardba" (ajI^a) Jackson (p. 73) gives Meheria {duj^}). Muhammad 'Abd el Magid's MS. gives "Hawawa."

CLXVii Sulayman is presumably the Hag Sulayman Ahmad of paras cxviii and clxviii.

CLXXV The 'Arakii'n had great religious influence owing to their alleged nobility of descent and the number of their fekis. See D 3 passim.

The emendation in the final sentence is adopted from another MS.

CLXXVII An "el Arbab Dafa'alla" is mentioned in paras cxxiv, cxxxi and cxxxvi {i.e. about 1797). In this paragraph (CLXXVii), i.e. about 1808, we have "el Arbab Dafa'alla walad Ahmad" or "el Arbab Dafa'alla." In

para, cxcvi, i.e. in 182 1, we have "el Arbab Dafa'alla walad Ahmad Hasan"; and in paras cxcvii, ccx, ccxiv and ccxviii "el Arbab Dafa'alla walad Ahmad" or "el Arbab Dafa'alla." Probably the same man is meant in each case. See note to para, ccxviii.

"Arbab" is properly a title: see Jackson, p. 94, and cp. Poncet, p. 8: "The Erbab or Governour of this province. . .lives at Argo,"

CLXXix To cast earth upon a person's head is to show contempt for him. The Arabic is . . . jJLe w^'j^l l^»- •

CLXXXiv It is noteworthy that all the five sons of Muhammad Abu el Kaylak whose children are mentioned at all named their (eldest ?) sons Muhammad after Abu el Kaylak.

CLXxxv " Yellow fever" is Aj)^\j.k^ ir**"

Hamid walad Abu 'Asa is No. 113 in D 3. "Muhammad Nurayn" is either another form of, or a mistake for, Muhammad Nur, for whom see the introduction to D 3 and ABC, xi.

Ibrahim 'Abd el Dafa'i is mentioned again as a poet in para, ccxxxv. He was possibly the son of that 'Abd el Dafa'i el Kandil whose biography is in D 3 (No. 4). The question of his authorship of D 7 is discussed in

the Introduction.

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