525 
APPENDIX 11. 
LIST OF THE ARAB OR MOORISH TRIBES SCATTERED 
OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE DESERT, ACCORD- 
mO TO THE DISTRICTS OR NATURAL DIVISIONS OF 
THE DESERT IN WHICH THEY ARE SETTLED. 
The original inhabitants of these regions, at least since the 
middle of the eighth century of our era^ were the Berbers, 
especially the Zenagha, or Senbaja; but these tribes, since 
the end of the fifteenth century, it would seem, have been 
pushed back, and partly conquered by the Arab tribes to the 
south of Morocco and Alojeria, who either interminoled with 
them or reduced them to a degraded position. Thus there are 
especially four classes of tribes, — the free warlike tribes, 'Arab, 
or Harar ; the Zuwaye, or peaceable tribes ; the Khoddeman, 
or Lahme, identical in the south-western quarter with the 
name Zenagha, the degraded tribes ; and the Harratin, or the 
mixed stock. The characteristic feature of these Moorish 
tribes is the gufFa, or full tuft of hair ; that of the Zenagha 
the peculiar fashion of wearing the hair called gataya, as 
they cut the hair on both sides of the head, and leave nothing 
but a crest on the crown, from whence a single tress hangs 
down sometimes to their very feet, or they tie the ends round 
their waist. 
The supposed ancestor of the Moorish tribes is Ode ben 
Hassan ben A'kil, of the tribe of the Katafan, who is sup- 
posed to have come from Egypt. 
I. ARAB TRIBES IN bIgHENA. 
The Welad Mebarek (sing. Mebarki), divided into the 
following sections: — 
