[3]Birket, as found on the maps of Arrowsmith.
[4]A hermit, and also a schoolmaster.
[5]Slave Merchants; Merchants in general; called, also, Djelabs, Gelabs, and Jelabs. Vid. “Legh’s Narrative of a Journey in Egypt and the Countries beyond the Cataracts” and, also, the Journal of Captain Light.—Tr.
[6]The German orthography has been generally followed, as it is impossible to give the exact spelling of these names, without being furnished with the Arab characters.—Tr.
[7]Accounts, it would appear, are kept in current piastres of Egypt, each piastre being equivalent to forty paras. Fifteen and a half or sixteen piastres are = one Spanish dollar; hence one piastre = three pence halfpenny of English money, and five paras would, therefore, be about one halfpenny English. For further information vide Encyclopædia Britanica, vol. iii. Article Egypt.
[8]This noble animal will probably be found stuffed in the royal Museum at Munich, for Mehemed Ali presented it to the Conseillier d’Etat Schubert who was at Cairo in the year 1836.
[9]A coin which is no longer current, but was equal to two piastres ten para, about twelve and a half kreuzer current = eight pence of English money.—Tr.
[10]A solemn feast kept by the Moslemin; the great Baëram, commences on the 10th of Dhu Ihajia; the little Baëram is held at the close of the fast Ramadhan.—Tr.
[11]Sennaar and Kordofan; Dongola is also under his sway, but does not belong to the Belled Soodan.
[12]Between Ambukol and Khartoom.