[55]Cape Gardafui is probably here meant.
[56]Having passed the Straits of Bab el Mandeb.
[57]See [note 28.]
[58]See [note 29.]
[59]See [note 30.]
[60]رُبط, the plural of رباط, are public buildings, destined originally for the accommodation of students; many of them still exist in the Hedjaz, and at Cairo, where they have declined into mere lodging-houses.
[61]Mozer is a species of Bouza, or fermented liquor, still known by that name in Egypt, and especially in Upper Egypt. I have mentioned this white, large grained Dhourra, in my journal.
[62]Towards Sennaar the cultivable soil on the Nile extends far inland.
[63]It thus appears that Christianity had at this time extended nearly as far as Sennaar.
[64]At this day the people of Berber and Shendy, as I have remarked in my journal, are less intelligent than the Noubas of Dóngola.