176 Mr. HOLROYDWS Journey to Kordofain.

[1837. of English corn-stacks, and two or three of these houses frequently belong to the same family, and stand within a small enclosure. The house of the governor Mohammed Bey, of Selim Kaschif, of tlle military comInandant., and of the Europeans in the service of the Pasha, with one or two more, are built of sun-burnt bricks. The inhabitants of Kordofan belong to several tribes. Tlle most numerous, called Giinjarah, consists of adherents of Sultan Fadl; the secondiscalled Meserbat, andweresubjectto HashimS formerly SultAn of KordofAn; the third, El Fung, belonging to Sultan Idris Ibn 'A'dlam, called also F6ngarawi, probably originally from Jebel }Sunji; and the fourth, Iddellagli, is a tribe of Donkolah. The Meserbat is the tribe properly belonging to KordofEn. In choosing a wife a man is not obliged to marry a woman of Kordofan, and vice terssw. In many Arab tribes, if a man marries a woman of another tribe and loses his wife, he is not afterwards allowed to marry one of his own tribe. The tribe of Aulad Seid, for example, which inhabits Jebel Tor, in the peninsula of Mount Sinain does not permit a man who has once married out of his tribe to take a wife from it afterwards: but in Kordofan, if a man of GunjArah marries a woman of the Meserbat, and either divorces her or loses her by deathn he can marry into the tribe to thich he himself belongs, or into any other, as he chooses. Kordofan has been subject to Alohammed 'Ali Pasha about sixteen years, Before he obtained possession of it, it was a province of Dar-Elir; and when subdued by the DefterdEr Bey was governed by T. owashl Emm-sellam a black eunuch, who, with the assistance of Ibrahim Idwir, a sultan of .Dar-Fur, maintained a contest against the Turks for an houl; when, both he and the sultan being killed, his people gave way, and submitted to the government of the viceroy of Egypt. A market is held every afternoon at 4 o'clock, where provisions of the most ordinary kind are offered for sale, principally the produce of the country. Grease, for anointing the hair and skin, is in the greatest demand; and in April and May, just before the periodical rains, good waterffetches a high price: for, with the exception of the well attached to the goverrlor's house, and one or two others in the town, all the water ol)tained from the l)ublic wells is so brackish as to be unpalatable even to the natires of the place. The PashaXs moneys Spanish dollarsn and English gold) are current in the lSzar; but as every article of life is so remarkably cheapS and small change very scarce, the peasantry in Kordofan make an iron money from the ore obtained from the neighbourhood of Wad Dha-s-sakiyeh, and to which they have given the name of Hasshashah. This money resembles a section of a mushroom. is made without any reference to weight, and each piece passes for one parah, forty beirlg equal to one Turkish