Darfur, a district in the Egyptian Soudan, in which vegetation is for the most part dormant all the year round, except from June to September, when it is rank and rich; was snatched from Egypt by the Mahdi, but is now restored.
Population (circa 1900) given as 500,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dardanus * D'Argens, Marquis