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of feud and hostility among the Igwadaren had reached 
an extraordinary height, for besides the common 
animosity which this tribe had displayed against their 
former liege lord, Alkiittabu, two different factions 
were opposed to each other in the most bloody feud, 
one of them being led by A'khbi and W6ghdugu, and 
the other by Teni, to whom were attached the greater 
part of the Tarabanasa and the Kel-hekikan. 
This chief, Teni, rendered himself particularly odious 
to the Sheikh's party by keeping back a consider- 
able amount of property belonging to the Gwanin, 
among which were a dozen slaves, more than fifty 
asses, and three hundred and sixty sheep. A very 
noisy assembly was held, in the evening of the 1st of 
April, inside my " zeriba," or fence of thorny bushes 
with which I had fortified my little encampment, 
in front of my tent. All the Gwanin assembled 
round my fire, and proposed various measures for 
arranging their affairs and for subduing the obstinate 
old Teni. One speaker was particularly distinguished 
by the cleverness of his address and his droll ex- 
pressions, although I thought the latter rather too 
funny for a serious consultation. However, this man 
was not a Berbiishi, but an Tdo *Ali, and therefore 
could not present a fair specimen of the capabilities 
of this tribe. 
This same chief, Teni, was also the cause of some 
anxiety to myself, as it was he who, as I have stated 
on a former occasion, when a young man, was wounded 
in the leg by Mungo Park ; and I was therefore rather 
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