The Tendelti has no current of its own, but is filled during the rains by the overflow from the Ko, and a dam, constructed near the junction, retains the water for some time. The wells supplying the town are all sunk in its bed.
The town now consists almost entirely of tukls and box-shaped straw sheds. There are about five or six mud houses, and the sultan intends to build himself a palace, the plans and material for which have been already sent to him from Khartoum.
On the town side, opposite the old palace, the old Government constructed a square fort with ditch and parapet. This is now demolished.
The population of the town was, in 1875, about 2,650. Of these—1,700 were natives, 300 Zeiadia Arabs, 250 Sâbah Arabs, 400 Melha Arabs. The population is now estimated at about 10,000.
Dara.There are now no other towns of importance. Dara, which used to be second in importance to Fasher, and the headquarters of a mudiria, is merely a small tukl village.
Melit.Melit is the name of rather a populous district in the north. Here there is a plentiful water supply from wells 9 to 12 feet deep in a khor, which also contains many date trees.
Tura.The ancient burial place of the sultans is at Tura in Jebel Marra.
ROUGH GENEALOGICAL TABLE TO SHOW THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE MORE RECENT SULTANS OF DARFUR.
| SultanMohammed El Fadl (died 1839). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sul. Hussein (died 1875). | Hasaballa[128] (died in Cairo). | Sul. Bosh (died1878). | Abu Bakr. | Zakaria. | Seif El Din. | Nuerein. | Imam, &c. | ||||||||||||||||
| Sultan Ibrahim. | Abdel Rahman. | Dud Banga (surrendered1898. Now lives at Gedaref, 1904.) | Ali Dinar (presentSultan). | Sul. Harun (died1880). | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sul. Yusef (died1888). | Sagha (died 1889). | Abu El Kheirat (died1890). | Abdel Hamid (now inCairo). | Hussein (executed byAli Dinar, 1903.) | Osman Abdel Rahman,late O. C. J. Hella (executed by Ali Dinar, 1903). | Hamza (Heir Apparent). | Ibrahim. | Seif El Din, &c. | |||||||||||||||
| At present attached to the Staffs ofthe principal Commanders in Sultan Ali Dinar’s Army. | |||||||||||||||||||||||