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CHAP. XL. 
THE HORDE OF THE WELAD SLIMAN. 
We had now joined our fate with that of this band of 
robbers, who, in consequence of their restless habits, 
having been driven from their original dwelling-places 
in the Syrtis*, after a great variety of events, have 
at length established themselves in this border region 
between the desert and the fertile regions of Negro- 
land, under the guidance of Mohammed the son of 
'Abd el Jelil, on the ruins of the old kingdom of 
Kanem, very much in the same way as in the west 
the "Welad Ammer (Ludamar) have established them- 
selves on the ruins of the empire of Melle. At that 
time they mustered a considerable force, and being 
joined by a great many adventurers from all the Arab 
tribes from the Rif as far as Fezzan, were able to 
bring into the field from 900 to 1000 horsemen. They 
then turned their attention towards our friends the 
Kel-owi, and began to seize upon their camels, which 
' came to Bilma for the salt-trade ; these, as the reader 
has seen from my previous account, are always pro- 
* I will only refer to the animated description which Captain 
Lyon (Narrative, p. 54.) gives of the former power of this tribe. 
