Chapter XXVIII: Part 28

[Footnote 188: Ricinus, a plant frequently seen in Nubia.]

[Footnote 189: See note 84.]

[Footnote 190: The people of Souakin export to Arabia quantities of mats made of the leaves of the Doum date, but I have seen none of their ships with similar sails. I recollect only to have seen in the port of Djidda, small fisher boats with such Doum mats put up for sails.]

[Footnote 191: These remarks are fully applicable to the ship owners and sailors from Souakin, and their behaviour towards the Negroe pilgrims at the present time.]

[Footnote 192: خلاصة الاختصاص في معرفة القوي و الخواص مختصر الفلاحة النبطية التي ترجمها ابو بكر ابن و حيشة تأَليف ابن ر قام المرسي]

[Footnote 193: Wahyshe says of the Sadj, that the colour of the wood approaches to black. It has a red bark, with large leaves of the size of a shield. Its odour resembles that of the walnut tree. It grows in India. The elephants eat the leaves as a favorite food. Of the trunk boats are made by excavating them, and some trees are large enough to contain 50 persons. An oil is extracted from the fruit.]

[Footnote 194: و في هذا الجبل من ظهره مغارة فكل من دخلها لايخرج منها و اما لحيوانٍ ياكله اولحفرٍ يقع فيه.]

[Footnote 195: I am told that when the French were in Egypt, General Kleber received several Fahed in presents from the chiefs of the Sennar caravan.]

[Footnote 196: The complete work must consist of about 30 volumes.]

[Footnote 197: He shews therein the intimate knowledge which he possessed of Greek and Roman history.]

[Footnote 198: Of this voluminous work, which is much more interesting than Damyry, I have only the 5th and 7th vol. The description of the elephant fills almost the whole of one of them.]

[Footnote 199: Thus are called those Arabs who happened to be at Medina and its neighbourhood, when Mohammed fled thither from Mekka.]

[Footnote 200: Although several villages exist that have taken from them the name of Helalye.]

[Footnote 201: And some of them in the Sherkye of Lower Egypt, and in the desert of Mount Sinai.]

[Footnote 202: About the villages of Goreyn and El Wady.]

[Footnote 203: Of the Beni Djozam, some encampments likewise remain in Darfour, if the authority of an Egyptian trader may be taken, who told me that he had there known some of them. The tribes of the Ababde and Bisharein at present people the great desert of Bedja, according to the limits which are given to that country by Macrizi, but which appear to have been much circumscribed by the present inhabitants (v. my notices on Bedja); these two tribes are no doubt a mixture of Arab and native Bedja blood. The Ababde however pride themselves in a pure pedigree, and assert their descent to be from an Arabian tribe.]

[Footnote 204: There is a small village in Upper Egypt, to the south of the site of Thebes, and about half an hour north of Orment (Hermontis) which still bears the name of Merys. Macrizi, in speaking of el Aksar (called by us Luxor, on the east side of Thebes) says that the inhabitants are reported to be of Merys origin.]

[Footnote 205: Macrizi, in the above cited work, el Selouk (which is one of the best histories of Egypt, from the time of Salah eddyn) speaks likewise shortly of this invasion of Melek el Aadel, and says that Kenz el Doula joined the army sent against the Nubians in 568, which reached and plundered Dóngola, where the house of the king was the only one built of stone, the rest being mere huts.]

[Footnote 206: Their province is at the same time one of the most populous and well cultivated; from the hill of the small town of Tahta I counted 35 villages within reach of the eye.]

[Footnote 207: In every part of the province of the Howara the land was assessed not by the Fedhan or acre, as it is now; but every district had to pay an annual round sum, and the Shikhs of villages were at liberty to partition it out according to their own pleasure, by which they accumulated great wealth. The Howara Shikhs were renowned for their hospitality. I alighted one night in the house of one of them in a village near the site of Abydus, where I found upwards of sixty people sitting down to supper in the court-yard of the house.]

[Footnote 208: I slept in a village called Adoane (عدوانه), on the east side of the river, about one hour north of Edfou. It is inhabited at present by the Aboudye, a branch of the great Ababde tribe; from thence a road of seven days leads to Kosseir.]

[Footnote 209: This is the tomb mentioned in my second journal through Nubia, page 463.]

[Footnote 210: Who, it seems, then took that road, as the Negroe pilgrims pass now by Souakin.]

[Footnote 211: There are two abridgments of these travels, one by Ibn Djezy el Kelby (ابن جزي الكلبي), the other by Ibn Fathallah el Beylouny(البيلوني ابن فتح الله); the latter I possess.]

[Footnote 212: Mr. Seetzen, in a treatise on the Berber nation, inserted in the Mines de l’Orient, says that Batouta states the inhabitants of Makdosho to be Berbers. He calls them, it is true, of the nation of Barbara, but it remains to be proved whether the northern Berbers have any thing in common with these Barbaras, or with the Berábera above the cataract of Syene, whom Mr. Seetzen likewise affiliates with the Berbers of Libya. I am ignorant whether Mr. Seetzen was in possession of the great work of Batouta, or merely of the abridgment.]

[Footnote 213: It is not said at what distance.]

[Footnote 214: I have mentioned this temple and road from hearsay, in my second journal.]

[Footnote 215: Mr. C. is soon to set out upon a second expedition, to discover the gold mines, and although he cares much less for geography and antiquities than for mineralogy, which he knows well, being a disciple of Haüy, yet he intends to examine as exactly as possible the whole desert between the Nile and the Red Sea, as far as about eight or ten days to the south of Kosseir. The Pasha, who is greatly interested in the search after gold and jewels, has done every thing to facilitate and ensure his journey, from which much interesting matter may be expected.]

[Footnote 216: This fish is called in Italian, “_Pesce Cane_.” A. S.]

[Footnote 217: We have seen above, that Aboab is the first city of the country of Aloa. From the distances here given, it must be in the country inhabited at present by the Arabs Sheygya. It seems therefore that ships can sail all the way from Assouan to Dóngola, across all the cataracts. This, can only be possible in time of high water.]

[Footnote 218: This is the Arabic mode of writing _Prince Renaut_.]

[Footnote 219: That is to say, that they prevented them from fetching it from the other side of the gulph.]

[Footnote 220: I am ignorant of the situation of this place.]

[Footnote 221: Roumy, i. e. a Roman,—a word first applied by the Arabs to the Greeks of the Lower Empire, and afterwards to all Christians.]

[Footnote 222: i. e. On the Arabian side.]

[Footnote 223: The valley of sacrifices near Mekka.]

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Transcriber's note:

The changes indicated in the Errata have been done.

pg xiii Changed: nothing could persaude to: persuade

pg xiv Changed: equally divided be- to: between

pg xxxix Changed: obliged to the Committtee to: Committee

pg xliv Changed: large ampitheatre to: amphitheatre

pg liii Changed: should have have been reaped to: should have been

pg lxiv Changed: fro Upper Egypt to: from

pg lxviii Changed: almost four thonsand to: thousand

pg lxxv Changed: to work np his to: work up

pg lxxix Changed: in the twelth century to: twelfth

pg lxxxii Changed: and especiclly near to: especially

pg lxxxv Changed: Israelites by Pharoah to: Pharaoh

pg 6 Changed: a vesel laden with to: vessel

pg 28 Changed: ther battle to: another

pg 38 Changed: of coarse excution to: execution

pg 61 Changed: the slighest idea to: slightest

pg 95 Changed: his contant reply to: constant

pg 102 Changed: of jars placed on over the other to: one over the
other

pg 133 Changed: their desendants may to: descendants

pg 133 Changed: took possesssion of to: possession

pg 135 (footnote [64]) Changed: the eastern moutains to: mountains

pg 138 Changed: people of Ibim to: Ibrim

pg 139 Changed: who exorts from him to: extorts

pg 142 Changed: with and curved edges to: and with

*pg 154 Changed: Chick tea to: Chick pea

*pg 156 Changed: Rosany to: Rosary

pg 185 Changed: I was suprised to: surprised

pg 208 Changed: of Upper Eygpt send to: Egypt

pg 209, reference to footnote [9] has been placed
after: Edris el Temsah,

pg 230 Changed: instances of opthalmia to: ophthalmia

pg 282 Changed: the moutains of Dender to: mountains

pg 291 Changed: boiled chich-pease to: chick-peas

pg 295 Changed: fever and dysentry to: dysentery

pg 327 Changed: Ras Raghig (رفيق) to: رقيق

pg 342 Changed: and fo drilling to: and of drilling

pg 401 Changed: name ofte occurred to: often

pg 424 Changed: grow n the plain to: grow in the

pg 432 Changed: are some wharehouses to: warehouses

pg 445 Changed: a handful of Dhoura to: Dhourra

pg 445 Changed: Abbyssinian slaves to: Abyssinian

pg 446 (footnote [72]) Changed: method of smimming to: swimming

pg 454 Changed: fradulent transactions to: fraudulent

pg 471 Changed: between Kossier and Souakin to: Kosseir

pg 479 Changed: Bahr el Feydh (بح الفيض) to: بحر

*pg 480 Changed: Oulad Ahmad (اولاد احعد) to: احمد

pg 489 Changed: called i the river to: called it

pg 490 Changed: were of opinon to: opinion

pg 509 Changed: you will be victorous to: victorious

pg 523 Changed: find this written likewsie to: likewise

pg 524 Changed: cellars, caverns, gottos to: grottos

pg 538 Changed: no greater heighth to: height

pg 542 Changed: had which been collected to: which had been

All changes listed above can also be found in the Second Edition
of this book (1822), except those marked with an asterisk.

The placement of diacritics in arabic words has been adjusted in
several instances to better match the transliteration offered
by the author.

Minor punctuation and capitalization changes have been done silently.

Isolated page-number typos have been corrected; the jump in
page-number from p. 242 to 253 has been left unchanged.

Other spelling inconsistencies have been left unchanged.

Underlined text is enclosed with '~', text with overline enclosed
with '{}'.