[175]The Howara are still settled in the villages from Siout to Farshyout. They state their origin to be from a Moggrebyn tribe.
[176]It is probable that at that epoch the Beni Kenz fled above the cataract.
[177]See [note 81.]
[178]Even now the travellers to and from Darfour, are in the habit of depositing their loads in the desert, if their camels have perished on the road, or are too weak to carry them on.
[179]The author means here the great famine that happened at that time in Egypt, or the Tartar invasion of Syria and Mesopotamia. At the same time the Sherif Ibn Sayd of Mekka had obstructed the passage of the Hadjis.
[180]The last figure being deficient in the MSS. it is uncertain in what year it was between 660 and 670.
[181]I have mentioned something of this Hadj route in my second journal. Batouta states the distance at fifteen days journey (see [note 82.]) Between Coptos and Berenice were twelve stations.
[182]As are the houses of Souakin at present.
[183]See [note 83.]
[184]Probably that in the bay, now called Dóngola. (See my journal.)