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APPENDIX I. 
trlcts are — I'm-eggeldla, a district of about two days' extent 
in every direction, consisting of black soil, and furnished with 
shallow wells; E. and E.N.E. of Taganet, is Tilimsi, a dis- 
trict rich in food for the camel ; E.N.E. of the hillet e' Sheikh 
el Mukhtar, is another district called Timitren, with many 
wells and a few villages ; and E.N.E. of the latter, the dis- 
trict called Tiresht, or Tighesht, bordering on A'derar. 
Of Arab tribes in A'zawad and the adjoining districts, I 
have first to mention several sections of the srreat tribe of the 
Kunta, who are distinguished by their purer blood and by 
their learning above almost all the tribes of the desert. 
The Kunta are divided into the following sections : — 
The Ergageda, who were formerly regarded as the 
Welaye, or the holy tribe. 
The Welad el Wafi, at present the Welaye, with the 
Sheikh A'hmed el Bakay as Well, while his elder 
brother, Sidi Mohammed, exercises great authority over 
the whole of A'zawad. The Welad el Wafi cultivate the 
friendship of the Hogar, while the Welad Sidi Mukh- 
tar are the deadly enemies of the latter. They are 
subdivided into three divisions, called - — 
El Mesadhefa, Welad ben Haiballa, and Welad 
ben 'Abd e' Kahman. 
The Welad Sidi Mukhtar. 
El Hemmal. 
The Too^at also are said to belono: to the Kunta. 
The BeraUsh (singl. Berbtishi), a tribe less numerous than 
the Kunta, mustering about 260 men armed with muskets, 
and 180 horsemen, and not spread over so wide a tract, being 
concentrated in the district between A'rawan aud Bu- 
Jebeha. They pay a tribute of 40 mithkal of gold to the 
Hogar, and are molested by continual incursions of the Welad 
'Altish. The Berabish, who probably are identical with the 
Perorsi of the ancient geographers, have migrated southwards 
since that time, and are of very mixed blood. They lived 
formerly in El Hodh, and are mentioned by Marmol Carva- 
jal, who wrote in the seventeenth century, as visiting the 
