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From the Takayr, Rifa'al, from Barqa, but they passed with difficulty. When from it, he authorized that mission. When the news came and I asked him about some of it, from it, it was astonishing. And the saying goes, the furthest point of the Ghur from the direction of Nashr is Aqsa al-Tuwaysha, and from the west, the end of the Dar al-Masalim, meaning the kingdom of the Masalim, and the end of the Dar Qura, and the beginning of the Dar Tame, which is the Hamla located between Dar Salih and it. And from the south, the Hamla located between it and Dar Qarit, and from the north al-Mazrub, which is the first well encountered by one heading to it from the Egyptian lands. And several small kingdoms follow it. From the north, the kingdom of the Zaghawa, which is a vast kingdom with countless people, and they have their own ruler, but in relation to the Sultan of Fur, he is like one of his commanders. From the north also, the kingdoms of al-Bayraq and al-Barq, and they are two large kingdoms. Now, the people of the latter are more numerous than the people of the former, and despite their numbers, they are more obedient to the Sultan of Fur than al-Bayraq. And within the lands of Fur are the kingdom of al-Bayraq and the kingdom of Barqa and al-Tajur and Miya. However, the kingdom of al-Bayraq and al-Tajur are in the center, and the kingdom of al-Barq and Miya are from the east, and the kingdom of al-Dalju and al-Baytqu from the south, as is the kingdom of Farawjiya. And each of these kingdoms has a ruler called a Sultan, but the Sultan of Fur is the ruler over all of them.

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