In DarfurA merchants remarkable travel account of an African kingdom Muammad al Tnis (d. 1274 1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al Tnis was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al Tnis set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He followed the Forty Days Road, was reunited with his father, and eventually took over the