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TRAVELS m AFRICA. 
Chap. LXXI. 
by sending for the Kel-iilli, who arrived in the 
course of the afternoon, about sixty strong, with 
great military demonstrations and beating of shields. 
It was on this occasion that I first made the acquaint- 
ance of this warlike tribe, who, notwithstanding their 
degraded position as Imghad, have made themselves 
conspicuous by totally annihilating the formerly 
powerful tribe of the Tgeldd and Tmedidderen, who 
in former times ruled over Timbuktu and were 
hostile to the Kunta. The Kel-ulli are distinguished 
among all the tribes of the neighbourhood by three 
qualities which, to the European, would scarcely 
seem possible to be united in the same person, but 
which are not unfrequently found combined in the 
Arab tribes, viz. " rejela," or valour; sirge," or 
thievishness ; and " dhiyafa," or generous hospitality. 
