wa'ba to dumta. 
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respect rank the A'bu. Goclam and the Marfa. Cross- 
ing in the morning the Beteha, leaving Nyangala, 
a place of the Jellaba north of the Beteha, on 
your right hand, and bending a little north from 
west, you pass Hijjerat, a place of the people of the 
shiukh (eunuchs) of the habbabat (concubines of 
the sultan), at some distance from the Beteha, and 
stay during the heat in Hijjer, not very far from the 
Beteha, formerly a place of Fatima, the sherif's 
favourite daughter, who died at Torbigen ; at pre- 
sent the village is transferred to a daughter of She- 
koma. From this place, Kaure is a little south 
from west. 
The Beteha bends from Kaure S. W. to Malam, so called 
on account of this watercourse joining here the Bat- 
ha ( w the confluence "), a place inhabited by a clan of 
the Tama, ten or twelve hours south a little west 
from Kaure. 
8th. Bororit, a large place, Cl Menzel Sultan," inhabited by 
Kashemere, Waday, Arabs, and Welad Hushta 
(domestics of the former sultans), consisting of about 
twenty hamlets, the largest of which is called Bo- 
rorit Hajar. Pass in the morning several small 
hamlets, in one of which you stop during the heat of 
the day. 
(c.) From War a to Dumta, the first Place in Ddr Fur, ac- 
cording to Hdj Sadik. [About 10 miles per diem.] 
1st day. Gattakarak, a place of the Waday. 
2nd. Gattakarak, a place of the Kelingen. 
3rd. Waweleda, a place of the Waday. 
4th. Kelmedi, a large place of the Sungori with a consider- 
able market-place ( ff tarf e' dar"), the last place in 
W T aday. East from this place are some rocky hills 
which occasionally serve as hiding-places to the Tama 
highway robbers. 
