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the salt lake ; and there is another, distinguished by 

 the name of El-Uted (the Peg), still existing on the 

 Aguache river, in Barbary. It is perhaps also this 

 tribe of Gomera who speak a Celtic dialect, said to be 

 still intelligible to Welsh seamen, and asserted to be 

 likewise understood on the south-west coast of Spain 

 and Portugal. They are graziers; and it may be 

 observed, that in Sanscrit, Gomed denotes an ox ; 

 Gomera in this case, like Gwalla in Asia, and Galla in 

 Africa, being denominations for oxman, neatherd. 



THE TUARIKHS. 



THOUGH both the Tibboos and Tuarikhs are nearly 

 pure Caucasians, we notice them here on account of 

 the remote antiquity they claim, and the thrifty cha- 

 racter they bear; the last mentioned, in particular, 

 are habitually engaged in marauding to make slaves 

 for sale, or in commercial transactions at annual fairs, 

 and conducting caravans to the nations of Soudan, 

 Bornou, and Timbuctoo. The language they speak 

 is not Arabic, is as yet little known, the natives 

 asserting it to be the most ancient in the world. If 

 the Roman Numidians still retain a national existence, 

 it is perhaps among these tribes that they should be 

 sought. The Tibboos, residing in the middle of Negro 

 tribes, between Fez and Bornou, are partly nomads, 

 hospitable and moderate beyond all other tenants of 

 the desert. 



We may place here the gipsey tribes, the Zingari, 



