ARAB TRIBES IN EL HO'dH. 
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Sekakena. 
A'hel e' Taleb Mustuf, a family of tolba." 
I/de Musa. 
Welad Aili. 
Welad Alti. 
AYelad Sekie. 
Lukarat. 
The Welad e' Naslr, very powerful^ and divided into 
the following sections: — 
Welad 'Abd el Kenm Weled Mohammed el Matuk, 
with Bakr Weled Senebe as their chief. 
Welad Masaud Weled Matuk, subdivided ; — 
El A^yasat. 
El rkemamera. 
Berarsha. 
Gheraber. 
A'hel Musa, the Shiukh, with the powerful chief 
'Othman el Habib. 
WeMd Yahia Weled M'atuk. 
Welad Mohammed Weled Matuk. 
The Jafera, the jim" pronounced like the French j in 
jour. 
The ' Ataris, here and in Baghena. 
The Fjuman, divided into several sections, of which I 
only learnt the names of three : — 
I'juman el 'Arab. 
I'juman e* tolbu. 
A'hel Mohammed. 
The Mesheduf, not independent, and, as it seems, of 
almost pure Berber origin, and a section of the Lim- 
tuna, being, most probably, identical with the Masufa, a 
Berber tribe so often mentioned by the Arab writers, 
such as El Bekri, E'bn Batuta, &c., as settled between 
Sijilmesa and Timbuktu. They are divided into se- 
veral sections : — 
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