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able to obtain particulars of more than the following : 
viz., encamped on this same ground with us was the 
salt-caravan of A'nnur, of Elaiji, of Hamma with the 
Kel-tafidet, of Salah, of Haj Makhrmid with the Kel- 
tagrfmmat, of A'maki with the Amakita, of the Im- 
asaghlar (led by Mohammed dan A'ggeg), of the Kel- 
azaneres, of the Kel-fnger (the people of Zingina), of 
the Kel-agwau, and finally that of the Kel-chernia. 
No doubt none of these divisions had more than 
two hundred camels laden with salt, exclusive 
of the young and the spare camels ; the whole of 
the salt, therefore, collected here at the time was at 
the utmost worth one hundred millions of kurdi, or 
about eight thousand pounds sterling. Beside the 
divisions of the airi which I have just enumerated as 
encamped on this spot, the Erazar were still behind, 
while the following divisions had gone on in advance : 
the Kel-n-Neggaru ; the Iserararan, with the chief 
Barka and the tamberi (war chieftain) Nasoma ; and 
the Ikdzkezan, with the chiefs Mohammed Irolagh 
and Wuentiisa. 
We may therefore not be far from the truth if we 
estimate the whole number of the salt-caravan of the 
Kel-owi, of this year, at two thousand five hundred 
camels. To this must be added the salt which had 
gone to Zinder, and which I estimate at about a thou- 
sand camel-loads, and that which had been left in Ta- 
sdwa for the supply of the markets of the country 
as far as Gober, which I estimate at from two hun- 
dred to three hundred camel-loads. But it must be 
