CAPITAL OF kordofan; lobeid. 259 Barracks, the arsenal, the hospital and the residences of the officers, and of many married soldiers living out of barrack ; in this quarter of the town the Bazaar is also seen. Wady Soffie is the place of abode of the negroes who immigrated with the Melik-Moussalem ; Takarir or Takruri, is the village of the pilgrims, where the greater part of the negroes from Pergu and other districts reside. In this part of the town the straw-huts of Abumedina, the brother of the Sultan of Darfur,* are also situate.

In Kongeri those emigrants from Darfur dwell, who have become residents, and remained after the conquest of the country by the Egyptian troops. The sixth village includes the new buildings of the Mogghrebeen, who are not provided with barracks, and have themselves built their own dwellings.

These six tillages collectively form the town of Lobeid. I estimate the number of inhabitants, exclusively of the military, at 12,000 souls. The houses named in the language of the country, Tukkoli, are mostly huts, similar to those described on a former occasion. The town does not present a Tery pleasing appearance, and is, on the whole, exceedingly dull and dismal, for very few large houses are to be seen, and not even one minaret, met with in nearly every village in Egypt, which, with the date-trees planted around them, give those villages at least a more cheerful aspect.

Nothing can be more monotonous than the ap-Vid. Chapter xix.

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