It is at one o'clock. Four or five places are not on a straight line, which is rare. Most are on a curved line. The Rasha have five hundred and ten days, during which they plant millet and sorghum. As for the longest, their 'Arin lasts for days other than the days of the Rasha, and their middle lasts for days with the Rasha. The shortest has no limit, and most of it is forty-five or fifty days. The closest to that is Qatt and Judr. These are like a known disease. Heavy rains come during that period, and the land becomes very fertile, especially at the end of the season and the end of planting. If the period of burning is prolonged and its rains are abundant, they call it the Timat autumn. The names of the months in the land of Fur and the Valley are in Arabic. They do not know the Roman, Coptic, or Persian calendars. The learned among them call them by the names that the Arabs used to call them, such as Kahum, Suffur, and Rabi', as for the common people, they call the months by other names. Although these names have Arabic meanings, they are inspired. They begin and calculate the year by another name. They call Shawwal Al-Fitr, Dhu al-Qi'dah Qatrain, Dhu al-Hijjah Al-Dhumayta, and Muharram Al-Dhumain.