f 
> DAR 
they chiefly rely on the Arabs, who accompany them, and 
are more properly tributaries to the fultan than his fubjects, 
In their perfons the Farians are not remarkable for cleanli- 
nefs, though obferving as Mahometans all the fuperftitious 
formalities of their religion; their hair is rarely combed, or 
their bodies completely wafhed. ‘The hair of the pubes 
and axillg they ufually ems ; but they know not the 
ufe of foap, fo that w ke sae e polthhing of the fkin with 
nl oe the want of perfeét ablutions, ard real 
inveterate “animolity fubfifts between the na- 
tives Ne Fir, and t Sordofan, which feems to be 
ecc 
‘thing refembling current coin is n in Soudda, alee it 
‘be {mall tin rings, the value of ata is arbitrary ; gold, not 
being found within the limits of Fur, is feldom feen in the 
‘market. The articles chiefly current are all fuch as belong 
to their drefs, fuch as cotton cloths, beads, amber, kohhel, 
‘rhéa, ; and o n the other hand oxen, camels, and flaves. 
" pe to intoxication, 
effes and this liquor par freely ufe, 
though it is prohibited by an adineace of t 
f death. This 
pain o ‘ s a diuretic a a Gapiontc 
tendency, which eed danger from their excefs in t 
ufeo n this ri 
the flaves nce | in ee to the mufic of a little drum. The 
vices of thieving, lying, and oe. in bargains, are very 
prevalent ; and fo m 
Of the winlege of se 
lowed by their facie they freely avail themfelves, fo bat 
the Firians take ree women and flaves wit! ie limita- 
ultan hae more than 100‘free women, and many 
t ve from 20 to 30. The females hee are 
not under fuch reftraints as they are in many other countries. 
None attempt to conceal their faces but ‘the wives of the 
o it from 
pn ae by the women. r labour, however, is ac- 
‘companied with a coutidenble degree of authority and in- 
fluence in domettic concerns. 
Previoufly to the eftablifhment of Iflamif{m, about a cen- 
a 
ic, and their judicial 
proceedings are conducted in both ladaiagess Next to the 
Vou, XI, 
D A’R 
officers of government, the “ faqui,”’ or learned man, 7. e. 
the prieft, holds the higheft rank. Their learning, how- 
ever, folely confifts in the knowledge of the Koran. The 
revenues of Dar-Fir arife from feveral fources. On all 
ceremony called 
“ leathering the kettle-drum,”’ takes place, all the principal 
people mult attend with prefents, which furnifh a 
liderable addition to the royal revenue. Prefents are cufto- 
mary on many other occafions. But one of the principal 
fources of revenue ia the tribute of the Arabs, who bree 
oreover, every village 
is ohne to pay annuaily a certain fum in corn, dohn, w ich 
ial a in = plans ; and he i arene with every ca 
to a great quantity of riences 
ad employs tis flaves an 
The people 
mountains, when they are in want et rain. For further 
particulars we muft refer to Mr. Browne’s ample and interett- 
ing account of Dar-Fir, and the adjacent oe in is 
* ‘Travels in Africa, &c. from the year 1792 to 1798. 
DA 7a ri of Afia, in the country of atte 
fituated on the 
DARG SIN, a cow of oo in the province of Irac- 
Agemi; 48 miles N.E. of 
DAR P, a town _ Perla in the province of Se-« 
giltan, feated on the river 
unty of Wicklow, in Ire. 
t Bra 
in the demefne of lord vifcount Powerfcaurt, is peculiarly 
firiking, and is much frequented. In the neighbourhood is 
a very fine fall of water, which is generally vifited at the 
fame time. An excurfion to the Dargel and SS 
never fails to selene the lovers of picturefque {cenery, and 
defcriptions of them may be found in molt of the travels _ 
through eee: 
US, in Ancient Geography, a river of Afia, in 
BaGrriana 3 "which had its fource in mount aap en and 
after a northern courfe difcharged itfelf into the 
DARGIES, in Geograph by, a {mall town . France in the 
department of the omme ; 6 miles S. o 
DARGOMANES, in Ancient Gaerapiys a river of Afia, 
in BaGtriana, which ran into the Oxus ; nis fuppofed 
that it is the Morga or Marou of mmr 
DARG Geogra res a “fmall town of 
originally a convent of Be 
ARIC, in Antiquity, a famous Piece of gold, firft coined, 
as fome have faid, by Darius the Mede, about 538 years 
Q. B.C.; 
