[Footnote 5: Slave Merchants; Merchants in general; called, also, Djelabs, Gelabs, and Jelabs. Vid. “Legh’s Narrative of a Journey in Egypt and the Countries beyond the Cataracts” and, also, the Journal of Captain Light.—TR.] [Footnote 6: The German orthography has been generally followed, as it is impossible to give the exact spelling of these names, without being furnished with the Arab characters.—TR.] [Footnote 7: Accounts, it would appear, are kept in _current piastres_ of Egypt, each piastre being equivalent to forty paras. Fifteen and a half or sixteen piastres are = one Spanish dollar; hence one piastre = three pence halfpenny of English money, and five paras would, therefore, be about one halfpenny English. For further information _vide_ Encyclopædia Britanica, vol. iii. Article Egypt.] [Footnote 8: This noble animal will probably be found stuffed in the royal Museum at Munich, for Mehemed Ali presented it to the Conseillier d’Etat Schubert who was at Cairo in the year 1836.] [Footnote 9: A coin which is no longer current, but was equal to two piastres ten para, about twelve and a half kreuzer current = eight pence of English money.—TR.] [Footnote 10: A solemn feast kept by the Moslemin; the great Baëram, commences on the 10th of Dhu Ihajia; the little Baëram is held at the close of the fast Ramadhan.—TR.] [Footnote 11: Sennaar and Kordofan; Dongola is also under his sway, but does not belong to the Belled Soodan.] [Footnote 12: Between Ambukol and Khartoom.] [Footnote 13: The ardeb is equivalent to very nearly five English bushels.—LANE. _Modern Egyptians, Library of Entertaining Knowledge._—TR.] [Footnote 14: _Holcus arundinaceus_, or _Sorghum vulgare_, of Linnæus, and _Holcus Doura_, of Forskaël.—TR.] [Footnote 15: The Cantaro is = 100 Rotoli, but the rotolo has different weights. The former is = 150 lb avoirdupois; the latter = 6159 grs. English, or, also, to 18 oz. avoirdupois.—TR.] [Footnote 16: A general term for millet, whether _panicum miliaceum_, or _holcus spicata_; it is the _holcus dockna_ of Forskaël.—TR.] [Footnote 17: Ornithomyzes, a family of apterous and parasitic insects, vulgarly called “tics.” The latin name _Ricinus_, is taken from Varro, and not well chosen, as it is liable to be confounded with the plant of the same name. Vid. _Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles_, tom. xlv. article _Ricins._—TR.] [Footnote 18: Shebé or Sheb, native alum.—TR.] [Footnote 19: Telka or Telg, a species of pomatum.—TR.]