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² T, 1089.

³ T, 10910.

⁴ The Funj Chronicle: (a) ed. Mekki Shibeika Makk Shibayka, Ta'rikh mulk al-Sdn, Khartoum, 1947, text, 19; (b) ed. Galil, Chater Bosayley A. al-Shṭir Buṣayl 'Abd al-Jall, Makhṭṭat ktib al-shna f ta'rkh al-salṭana al-sinnriyya wa'l-idra al-miṣriyya, n.p., n.d. Cairo, 1961, 678.Google Scholar

⁵ T, 78.

⁶ I have recently learned that manuscripts are being sought and photographed by the officials of the Central Records Office in Khartoum.

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¹⁰ T, 714.

¹¹ T, 3942.

¹² T, 334.

¹³ T, 546.

¹⁴ T, 4753.

¹⁵ T, 7483.

¹⁶ T, 90.

¹⁷ T, 18.

¹⁸ T, 120.

¹⁹ School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham: Sudan Archive, Provisional hand-list of Arabic manuscripts and lithographs: Africa, Arabia, second draft, 1961, No. 256 (19), ? al-ṭhir b. 'Abd Allh, Kitb ma'rif fur' al-Ạrab wa'l-ḥasab wa 'l-nasab: 97/5/11.

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²² Fur, f. 5a. This passage does not appear in MacMichael's translation.

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²⁴ T, 91.

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²⁸ MacMichael, , Arabs, II, 304, suggests that Qindlab'Awn may be identical with Qindl al-Ṣrid, referred to in another notice (T, 137). This would establish a link with the Ṣawrda, who appear in the anecdote of Rubṭ's marriage.Google Scholar

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³³ T, 6.

³⁴ His notice is at T, 6. It is not found in MacMichael's summary-translation, which was made from a defective manuscript.

³⁵ Sayed Mohammed Omer Beshir of the University of Khartoum informs me, from his personal knowledge of the locality, that Turunj is on the right bank of the Nile, near to Karma and opposite Nn. There are numerous fertile islands in the vicinity.

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³⁸ Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS Bruce 18 (2), f. 55b.

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⁴⁰ T, 67. Not found in MacMichael's summary-translation.

⁴¹ T, 7. Not found in MacMichael's summary-translation.

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⁴⁵ The sd al-qm (sayyid al-qawm) was a high officer of royal blood at the Funj court.

⁴⁶ MS Bruce 18 (2), f. 55b.

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⁴⁸ That Dr Ṣulayḥ or Waddy was a watershed between the eastern Bild al-Sdn, which was culturally dependent on Egypt and the east, and the western Bild al-Sdn, which was similarly dependent on the Maghrib, is confirmed by Burckhardt, who observed in 181314 that the Fakys, as well as Saley as of the countries to the east of it, all write the eastern Arabic Nuskhy characters though very much corrupted; while those to the west and north have uniformly adopted the Moggrebyn character' (Burckhardt, J. L., Travels in Nubia, London, 1819, 481).Google Scholar

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⁵³ Nasr Island is in the main Nile, up-stream of Shand.

⁵⁴ T, 21; MaeMichael, , Arabs, II, 228 (47).Google Scholar

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⁵⁷ T, 174; MacMichael, , Arabs, II, 253 (160).Google Scholar

⁵⁸ T, 72; MacMichael, , Arabs, II, 244 (130).Google Scholar

⁵⁹ T, 1745; MacMichael, , Arabs, II, 259 (196).Google Scholar

⁶⁰ T, 100; MacMichael, , Arabs, II, 267 (239).Google Scholar

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