no THE NON-ARAB RACES OF DARFUR i. 4. xxrr.

The majority of the enclosures contained only single-storey

buildings of simple circular design, but in the more important ones

one often finds an upper-storey room built over the closets or on the

top of the wall, which is broadened sufficiently to support it.

I have not personally visited any of the present-day villages in

the most inaccessible and undisturbed portions of the range, namely,

the heart of Gebel Si and the peaks above Kalokiting, at the south

Fig. 3 (from Gebel Sf). Diameter of circles about ii yards. Rooms about 2^X3! yards. B and eastern half of A stand on crest of small rocky hill. Western half of A is on down gradient. Walls about 2J—3 feet high except on western half of A where they were probably about 5 feet. B contained no

rooms. C is a raised platform of same height as walls. D, possible position of

entrance. D— E, wall completely ruined. F, possibly a path. GG, sheer drop down hillside. H, boulders.

end of Gebel Marra, near the great mountain lake of Deriba; but the

following extract from a report made and kindly lent to me in 191

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by Captain H. F. C. Hobbs of the West Yorkshire Regiment, who,

with Mr J. A. Gillan of the Sudan Civil Service, has the distinction

of being the first white man to visit the latter portion of the range,

suggests that some at least of the Fur still take some care in the

building of their huts and the management of their crops and,