I had been to Dar al-Hamar, Home of the Hamar people, but never to Dar al-Humār, Home of the Donkey, much less to its Jebel, and because its location lay far to the west of our route to Egypt, KhairAllah did not take me there. After searching through maps and geographical gazetteers of Sudan, neither was I ever able to locate the village of ‘Idhān al-Humār, Ear of the Donkey, whose name was changed because it reportedly embarrassed its townsmen. Oh well, at least now I know where to find its Mountain, by its long topo lines in the shape of a donkey ear, just to the north of Umm Badr where KhairAllah was born.
