4i8 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. d7. clxxxv.
The Arabic of his verses is :
Ijuj-o^oJ^JW (J^ >*^ w>*e-^ Lf^ J*^^*^ UjJki L5^ O-**^' P->
bi>-'3 ^olJ*^' Lji Ij'Si-^ jl*- J^aJ Ua*;;)! wa-wo j^^a^' O-v' >-:*^' >*
In Muhammad 'Abd el Magid's copy, in the first Hne, ^.^x*^ occurs for ^^..CL^, and in the second line we have ^JaJ for ,^1 and 1^1 for Ua*^! . The sense is unaffected.
CLXXXViii El Labayh was the Rufa'i Sheikh. His headquarters were at Kdwa.
CLXXXix "Gibis" (^,^AO.) is a purely Sudanese word, and is variously explained. The idea of stickiness seems to be primarily involved.
cxc Cp. para, ccxxxii. Sheikh Hasan was the son of the 'Abd el Rahman ibn Salih ibn Ban el Nuka whose biography is in D 3 (No. 25). See Intro-
duction to D 3.
cxci Nasir "walad 'Agib" is the Nasir walad el Amin of paras cxl and CLXXXVi: see para. ccix. "Walad Agib" was practically a hereditary title.
Na'um Bey (11, 99)— followed by Budge (11, 204) and Jackson (p. 105) — gives three separate persons in succession (Nasir wad el Amin, Amin ibn Nasir and Nasir wad Agib) by error for one.
cxcii El Sayyid Muhammad 'Othman el Mirghani was the great-grand-
father of Sir Sayyid Ali el Mirghani, K.C.M.G. He entered the Sudan by way of Massawa from Mekka in 181 7 and visited Kordofan as well as
Sennar, In Kordofan he married a Dongolawia, and his son el Sayyid
el Hasan was born at Bara. The shrine erected over the latter's afterbirth
at Bara is described by Seligman in the volume of Essays and Studies pre-
sented to William Ridgezoay. El Sayyid el Hasan visited Mekka and finally
returned and settled at Kassala. His son el Sayyid Muhammad 'Oth-
man II resided at Massawa and died in Egypt in the Khalifa's time, leaving two sons, el Sayyid Ahmad,who lives at Kassala, and el Sayyid 'Ali, who lives at Khartoum and Omdurman. The Mirghania tarika is a branch of the Khatmia.
cxciii ''Ahmad" is given in the Arabic by error for " Hammad." 'Awad el Kerim Abu Sin had a number of sons, and the best known of them, Ahmad Bey (see paras ccxc, etc.), lived on into Turkish days. One of
Ahmad Bey's brothers was named Hammad ; and other copies I have seen give "Hammad" and say both he and his father "were killed by the
Batahin." The text of D 7 gives "Bahtagiyyun" but no such people exist.
''Religious Sheikhs" is juja- s^^l j^. L^. cxcv See para. CLv. ^ cxcviii Hasan was Abu el Kaylak's grandson. Of him and Wad 'Adlan Cailliaud, who accompanied Isma'il Pasha in 182I; speaks as follows: " Ces deux usurpateurs, ennemis I'un de I'autre. . .n'accordaient au roi legitime que la faible part qu'il leur avait plu de lui assigner. A'dlan \i.e. Walad 'Adldn] tenait sa cour au village de Mouna, oii il tentait de se former une petite province: il avait le don de se faire aimer, et son parti etait plus fort que celui de Regeb [i.e. fj( sew Ri.gab]. Au mois d'avril, le bruit des brillans succes d'Ismayl sur les Chaykyes et de I'approche de son armee, vint Jeter I'alarme dans le Sennar. A'dlan et Regeb sentirent alors que leur