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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. LXVII. 
valley Ahennet, on his way from Tawat, was con- 
ducted by his guides to, and made a long stay at, 
the camp or station of the Sheikh's father, Sidi Mo- 
ll ammed, in the hillet Sidi el Mukhtar, the place 
generally called by Major Laing Beled Sidi Moham- 
med, but sometimes Beled Sidi Mooktar, the Major 
being evidently puzzled as to these names, and apt to 
confound the then head of the family, Sidi Moham- 
med, with the ancestor Sidi Mukhtar, after whom 
that holy place has been called. It is situated half 
a day's journey from the frequented well Bel Mehan, 
on the great northerly road, but is at present de- 
serted.* 
some of his letters, dated Tawat, Jan. 1826, especially in a letter 
addressed to James Bandinel, Esq., which General Edward Sabine, 
the great friend of the distinguished traveller, kindly allowed me to 
inspect. 
* Instead of communicating the itinerary from Timbuktu to the 
hillet in my collection of itineraries through the western half of 
the desert, at the end of the following volume, where it would be 
overlooked by the general reader, I prefer inserting it in this 
place : — 
1J day, Teneg el hay, or Ten eg el haj, a well where all the roads 
meet. A great many celebrated localities along this part of 
the road. 
1 day, Tin-tahon, about the heat of the day •, a locality so called 
from an eminence, "tahon." 
1 day, Worozil, a well with a rich supply of water, about the 
same time. 
1 day, E'n-elahi, a whole day. From hence to the small town 
Bu-Jebeha, passing by the well e' Twil, 2 days. 
2 days, Eruk ; 3 days from A'rawan ; 1^ from Bu-Jebeha. 
Close to Eruk is Merizik. 
1 day, Bel-Mehan, a rich and famous well ; a long day, keep- 
