SECTIONS OF THE BERABl'SH. 
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market of Sego ; in the beginning of the sixteenth century, 
they lived still further to the W., and visited especially the 
market of Jinni.* The Berabish are divided into two groups, 
the principal of which is ruled by the chief Hamed Weled 
' Abeda Weled Rehal, and consists of the following sections : 
The Welad Sliman, the Shiukh, that is to say, the tribe 
to whom the Sheikh belongs, and who have based 
their power and wealth upon the ruin and spoil of 
the Welad Ghanem. 
The Welad 'Esh. 
The Welad Bu-Hinde. 
El Gwanin el kohol. 
El Gwanin el bedh. 
Welad A^hmed. 
These are the free tribes of this group ; the following are 
the degraded and servile tribes, the lahme" or "khoddeman": 
— the Yadas, the Ladim, or rather only a small portion of that 
tribe, the A'rakan, the A'hel 'Aisa Tajawa, El U'ssera. 
The second group of the Berabish as a whole, bears the 
remarkable name of " Botn el jemel," on account of its being 
composed of heterogeneous elements, brought together by 
chance, just as is the case with various kinds of food in the 
stomach of the camel." It is ruled by a chief of the name 
of Hamma, and consists of the following tribes: — -Welad 
Relan ; Welad Deris, originating from Tafilelet ; Welad Bu- 
Khasib ; Welad Ghanem, and the Turmus, the latter being 
the tribe of which I have spoken on a former occasion. 
E. — Route from Bone or from Homhori, by way of Konna^ to 
Hamda-AUahi. 
Dalla the chief place of the p"rovince of the same name, is of 
considerable size, and the residence of a governor. Modi Bole, 
* De BarroSj I. iii. c. viii. p. 220, Genna. — " Concorriam a ella 
OS povos que Ihe sac mais vizinhos : assi com os Caragolees, 
Fullos, Jalofos, Azaneges, Brabaxijs, Tigurarijs, Luddayas." See 
the chronological tables at the end of the preceding vol., p. 604. 
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