422 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.dt.ccxvi.

caractere hautain, de sa fierte: je le trouvai assis sur un engareb lisant le Coran.. . .Nimir est un homme de six pieds; il a le regard dur, Thumeur

sombre; il est reflechi, plein d'orgueil et d'audace, studieux et devot." See also note to cccxxv.

ccxvii " Kadakhddr" is said to have been a title denoting "Master of the Household."

ccxviii El Arbab Dafa'alla (previously called "el Arbab Muhammad walad Ahmad") is mentioned by Werne (p. 77). Speaking of Isma'il Pasha's murder he says: "At the same time, the father of our Defalla [q.v. paras ccc, ccci], Mohammed Adlan Defalla, Great Sheik of the Fungh, on the Gesira, murdered all the Turkish soldiers to be found in

his countries." Our author omits this! Werne adds (p. 78) that this same el Arbab Dafa'alla "fled from the Gesira, and, according to report, died in Habesch." See note to CLXXVii.

The family of el Arbab Dafa'alla are said to have been Sururab, i.e. Gamu'ia, but they intermarried with the Fung royal house (see note to para. ccc). Their headquarters were at el Surayba. Abu Shoka is a few

miles south of Sennar (see Marno's map).

The people of 'Abud were nearly all Kawahla. " Delalia" were irregular troops such as were later called Bashi Bazuks. ccxix Cp. Cailliaud, iii, 337-8; Riippell, 11 1-2: Deherain, 98; Werne, 77; and Budge, 11, 212. The Arabic of the last sentence is :

U*^a. ^^S^ai^J j-«lj aJ^Aa. ^ »-JjJt J^-o^fc-' A*Aa)I ^^^ J^ij

ccxx This " Walad 'Agib " is the Nasir walad el Ami'n of para. ccix. For Sheikh Khogali see D 3, 154.

ccxxii Kutrang is on the east bank of the Blue Nile below el Kamh'n.

By "el Kubba" is meant, as usual, the site of Sheikh Khogali 's tomb at Khartoum North. Werne's translator (p. 17) cails it "Chobba."

ccxxiv El 'Adayk is a colloquial name for the Blue Nile. ccxxv The 'Akaki'r are a section of Ga'alii'n. ccxxviii El Nasub is a hill in the Butana between the Blue Nile and Kassala Province.

ccxxix Bashir walad 'x\kid (q.v. para. CCLXVI) was one of the Mirafab of Berber.

Um 'Artik ("mother of roots") was properly a large /iam^: tree and gave its name to a site on the west bank of the White Nile close to the site of the present Commandania of Omdurman.

ccxxxii See para. cxc. ccxxxiii Sabderat is just east of Kassala. Werne (pp. 217-8) refers to this expedition. Sabderat was destroyed and the popilation put to the sword.

ccxxxv Cp. para. CLXXXV for Ibrahim 'Abd el Oafa'i.

Sheikh Ahmad el Taib ibn el Bashir's tomb, built in 1906, is at the village, called after him " Sheikh el Taib," on the west bank some twenty- five miles below Omdurman. He introduced the Sammania iarika into

the Sudan. He himself adopted it, when at el Medina, from its founder

"el Sammani." Sheikh el Taib's descendants speak of themselves as