[65]It should seem from this, that his country extended far to the south towards the Abyssinian mountains.
[66]See [note 31.]
[67]A chasm in all the three manuscripts.
[68]See [note 32.]
[69]يتلثموا, i. e. they cover their faces with a hand-kerchief, as the Arabian Bedouins, to this day often do with their keffie, or head-kerchief.
[70]Much the same thing is related of the present king of Bornou.
[71]As it still does in Bornou and Bahr el Ghazal.
[72]See [note 33.]
[73]I have stated in my journal, that towards Shendy and Sennaar the cotton Dammour and its fractional parts form the principal currency.
[74]Probably by tying many of them together, and thus making a raft.