[31]I shall make some further remarks on this important subject in my [Appendix] on the arts of Meroe.
[32]Lib. xvi. p. 770.
[33]The okre consists of 2¾ rotles, or pounds of 12 ounces; and 150 rotles, or pounds, make a cantar.
[34]This Plate contains also an Ababde of the Desert, in the short drawers they sometimes wear.
[35]The bearings of the course of the river, and numerous other villages and islands, whose names I obtained, are marked in the [map.]
[36]About fifteen miles from the second cataract.
[37]The rotle consists of 12 ounces.
[38]He fell ill in Kordofan, but did not die until he arrived at Wady Modeen, on the Bahr el Azruk, where I believe he is buried.
[39]As regards the title of “melek,” this is the name given in Hebrew to the different chiefs: but it is invariably translated, in our version, “kings.”
[40]I have heard a song that describes this battle. The Arabs adopt very generally this method of preserving the recollection of any important event. There is a curious one about the Deftar Dar Bey, when he avenged the death of Ismael Pasha on the Shendyans. He is represented as coming as swift as the ostrich; “burning the fakeers,” and “killing the sheakhs.”