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besides the general one which Bagirmi pays to Waday, is 
the most powerful on account of his numerous cavalry; then 
follows, it seems, the Agid of the Jaatena, and Duggana. 
The Agid-e'-sybba, is very unpopular on account of the ex- 
tortions and vexations to which he is continually subjecting 
travellers and pilgrims, who on that account shun his ter- 
ritory as they would the haunt of a wild beast. 
Each of these agids has a khalifa, or substitute, called 
agid-el-birsh, whom he sends into his province if he does 
not wish to go himself, and some of whom exercise consider- 
able authority by themselves; and besides this person an 
Emm is also added, on the part of the sultan, in order to 
inspect and control the collection of the tribute, and to see 
that the due proportion, viz. half of the dhiyafa, is sent to 
the sultan. 
Tribute.-— The tribute or tax, called here "divan," varies 
greatly according to the wealth and character of the pro- 
ductions of the several districts. But as a general rule, an 
inhabitant of any town in Waday Proper, besides occasional 
contributions or presents, has to pay for himself two mudd — Ti 
measure containing twenty-two handfuls of corn, or rather 
dukhn ; and, together with the other inhabitants of his town, 
a certain number of camels ; while with regard to the Arabs, 
every chief of a family has to give a kaffala of two heads of 
cattle every third year, and if he be a fakih, but one. But be- 
sides this general tax, there are some smaller ones for the black 
natives ; as, for example, on each of the great Mohammedan 
holidays, every village has to present to its Ajuwadi, that is to 
say, to the person upon whom it has been settled as an estate, 
one makhalaye— a measure containing three mudd or medad — 
of dukhn, and has also to make the same present to an officer 
in the palace called" Sidi-e'-derb," as well as to the <c Sidi-el-al- 
boye;" the larger villages or towns have to give more in pro- 
portion, as much as ten mekhali ; and besides this, on bringing 
their tribute to the king, the smaller villages have to present 
their Ajuwadi with one camel-load of dukhn, and the larger 
