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kholgan," the masters of the shirts and " tokaki," and, finally, 
the artu {sing, arak), or, as they are called here, shiukh, the 
eunuchs, or the masters of the female department. 
Character of the Towns and Villages. — The dwelling-places 
throughout the whole extent of Waday are in general small ; 
and I have been assured by the natives themselves that there 
is no town containing one thousand separate dwellings. Indeed 
Wara, till recently the capital and residence of the monarch, 
which in 1852, on account of the seat of government having 
been transferred to Abeshr, was every day becoming more and 
more deserted, scarcely contains above four hundred houses, 
while Nimro, the famous seat of the Jellaba, is stated not to 
exceed two hundred. In general the towns or villages of the 
Kodoyi are said to be the largest, some of them containing 
as many as six hundred houses, while those of the Mimay 
are said to be the smallest. But the largest place in the 
whole of Waday is said to be Kodogus, two days west from 
Shenini. 
The houses or huts consist, like those of all the rest 
of Negroland, of groups of round, bell-shaped huts, made 
of reed, and called " mahareb," or " samavi," in the Waday 
language, enclosed by a wall or fence, "sheragena-dali," 
and but very rarely, as is the case with the houses of the 
king and those of the persons of rank on one side and the 
Jellaba on the other, built of clay. But the Arabs live 
in portable huts, made of mats which they themselves manu- 
facture of the leaves of the deleb-palm, and which are 
called " reri " by the Wadawy. 
Commerce and Market-places. — Almost all the commerce, 
on a large scale, which is carried on in Waday, is in the hands 
of the Jellaba ; a considerable number of this peculiar stock, 
whom I have not classed above among the various tribes in- 
habiting that country, having migrated into Waday about 
a hundred years ago, from the valley of the Nile, and prin- 
cipally, though not exclusively, settled at present in Nimro, 
a place about eight miles S.W. from the former capital. 
